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Smashburger sets opening date for Brown Street location
The Smashburger at 1200 Brown St. near the University of Dayton campus is scheduled to open Feb. 24, Smashburger officials announced today, Feb. 1.
This will be the second Smashburger to open in the Dayton area for the Denver-based chain, following last fall’s opening of the restaurant at 2315 Miamisburg-Centerville Road in the Shoppes at 725 in Miami Twp. Smashburger and local franchisee group Rodenkirch Management, LLC are scheduled to open 12 restaurants in the Dayton and Cincinnati region over the next few years, according to a Smashburger news release.
“The response to our first Dayton location has been overwhelmingly positive,” Smashburger Founder Tom Ryan said in the release. “We look forward to bringing ‘better burgers’ to the University of Dayton and the rest of the Miami Valley.”
The Brown Street Smashburger will open with 32 to 35 employees, a Smashburger spokeswoman said.
A Smashburger spokeswoman said lease negotiations are ongoing for other Dayton-area locations.
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TweetSeveral restaurants extend Restaurant Week deals through this week
The success of last week’s Winter Restaurant Week has prompted a handful of restaurants to extend the promotion through the end of this week, Feb. 5, Amy Zahora, executive director of the Miami Valley Restaurant Association, said this morning, Feb. 1.
At least eight eateries will offer the special — in which diners can enjoy a three-course meal for $20.10, and restaurants donate $1 for each meal sold to local charities — through Friday, and some will serve the menu Saturday as well, Zahora said. (Click here to see menus on the Miami Valley Restaurant Association page.
Restaurant Week attracted throngs of diners to 70 participating restaurants last week, with diners reporting large crowds and difficulty getting reservations at peak times at many restaurants.
“The feedback I’ve gotten suggests that everybody’s numbers are up,” Zahora said. “I think we will break the record for Restaurant Week.”
More than 20,000 dinners were sold during last winter’s 2009 Winter Restaurant Week, which was extended to a second week because a snowstorm wiped out much of the first week.
Here’s a list of the restaurants serving through at least Friday:
— Amelia’s Bistro, 129 W. Franklin St., Bellbrook, (937) 310-3040
— Barbie’s Bistro, 1122 E. Dorothy Lane, Kettering, (937) 262-7300
— Benham’s Restaurant, 209 Warren St., Dayton, (937) 228-7041 (Thursday, Feb. 4 through Saturday, Feb. 6)
— The Caroline, 5 S. Market St., Troy, (937) 552-7676
— C’est Tout, 2600 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood, (937) 298-0022
— The Dock, 250 W. Main St., Enon, (937) 864-5011
— L’Auberge, 4120 Far Hills Road, Kettering, (937) 299-5536
— The Melting Pot, 453 Miamisburg-Centerville Road, Washington Twp., (937) 567-8888
— Nick’s Restaurant, 1443 N. Detroit St., Xenia, (937) 372-3202
— Welton’s Catering & Dinners to Go, 10 W. Franklin St., Bellbrook, (937) 848-3333
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TweetNew, locally owned restaurant to open on Brown Street
Amy Beaver’s reasons for opening her own restaurant are simple and straightforward:
“I love to cook, and I love to take care of people. I’m always feeding my friends,” Beaver said.
Soon, perhaps in early March, Beaver and her business partner, Sarah Dudley, will open the Butter Cafe at 1106 Brown St. near the University of Dayton, in a location that formerly housed the Dolcessa gelato shop. A sign in the window alerts passers-by that the breakfast-and-lunch eatery is coming soon, and promises free-range eggs and chicken, grass-fed beef, and locally produced vegetables.
Beaver, who lives in Oakwood, said offerings will include donuts, “designer” cupcakes, pancakes, beef hamburgers and turkey burgers, and a special-recipe macaroni & cheese. The restaurant will include gluten-free menu items and several vegan items, in part because vegans “have very limited options” along the Brown Street strip dominated by pizza, chicken-wing and sub sandwich restaurants, Beaver said.
The dishes she’ll serve at Butter Cafe will reflect how she eats at home, Beaver said. “Cleaner food tastes better,” she said.
Beaver, whose family has been in the restaurant business in South Carolina for 25 years, said the Butter Cafe’s location near UD and Miami Valley Hospital attracted her interest.
“We’ve had this idea for years,” she said. “We looked at different locations, but nothing worked out. This location was the best.”
The restaurant has no phone number yet. Beaver said the Butter Cafe’s hours aren’t set, but it will open early — 6:30 or 7 a.m. — and stay open through mid-afternoon.
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