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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
New independent restaurant to open in former Applebee’s location
TROTWOOD — A new, independently owned restaurant called Taste is scheduled to open Sept. 17 in a former Applebee’s location at 2555 Shiloh Springs Road near Ohio 49 and Salem Ave., according to the new venture’s owner, Jason Thomas of Englewood.
Trotwood Mayor Joyce S. Cameron and the city’s economic development administrator, Rhonda Finley, said they welcomed the new restaurant, which they said could serve as a catalyst for retail and commercial development in the area. The former Applebee’s building has been vacant for at least five years, and “was turning into a blight on our main corridor, Cameron said. “This will be a huge boost for the area.”
Taste will seat about 160 and will employ 20 to 25, Thomas said. The former Applebee’s building required extensive work: “We renovated everything on the inside of the restaurant,” Thomas said.
Thomas, a Dayton native, works for LexisNexis and has traveled extensively as part of his job. He said he found the lack of non-chain restaurant options in the Trotwood and Englewood areas frustrating. “There is a need for fine dining in this part of town,” Thomas said.
Family members — including a cousin, Roger Smith, who has worked in the dining industry for 25 years as a chef — will help run the restaurant, Thomas said.
The Taste web site describes the new restaurant’s cuisine as “gourmet Soul Food, Cajun and Creole cuisine.” Thomas said the focus will be on tapas and entrees made in a health-conscious way — “creative cuisine and an array of meals that cater to everyone,” he said.
The restaurant also will feature live music — jazz, blues and R&B — that will be a focus on weekend evenings, and is also planned for weekday evenings, Thomas said.
Taste will have a full liquor license, Thomas said. It will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday “for a jazz brunch,” the new restaurant’s owner said.
For more information, call (937) 854-7060.
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New restaurant to open Saturday in Beavercreek
BEAVERCREEK — The new CBCB Bar & Grill at 2495 Commons Blvd. near the Mall at Fairfield Commons that we first told you about in January is scheduled to open at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, according to the restaurant’s owner, Bob Byers.
CBCB Bar & Grill will seat about 100 inside and an additional 40 on a newly constructed patio, Byers said. It will employ about 25. The location was formerly a Moe’s Southwest Grill that closed in July 2010.
Byers borrowed elements from other restaurants he owns — Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers and Carmel’s Southwest Grill — and added a few new enhancements to create the new restaurant’s menu, which will include a dozen 8-ounce burgers made from certified Angus beef, a half-dozen quesadilla choices, fajitas, fish tacos, salads, sandwiches and vegetarian options. CBCB Bar & Grill has a full alcohol license, and will feature 100 beers by the bottle, including several craft beers, as well as a martini menu, Byers said.
The other three restaurants that Byers owns — two Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers and Carmel’s — are located in the city of Dayton. Byers said the new restaurant’s location will accommodate customers who work or attend Wright State University, work at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and live in the Beavercreek area.
The restaurant was originally scheduled to open in the spring. Byers said a credit crisis in the local banking industry and the unwillingness of local financial institutions to lend earlier this year were factors in the delay.
CBCB Bar & Grill’s hours will be 11 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday. For more information, call (937) 426-3287.
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