Some time again I wrote about how Lori Stern of Cow & Quince in New Glarus was making an attempt to sell the business and the building, by no means having fairly meant to open a restaurant within the first place. (Cow & Quince started as a “native market with gentle fare” that simply saved increasing.)
I’d have sworn that I wrote that article about three years in the past (extra?) at this level, nevertheless it was truly printed on Jan. 23, 2020, proper at first hit the fan. Okay, so it was not a good time to be making an attempt to promote a restaurant.
“It has been fairly a yr and a half!” Stern stories through e-mail. “A good friend and former worker has opened a restaurant within the house, and has plans to buy the constructing.” As for Stern, she’s returned to coverage making on the problems surrounding consuming native and natural that introduced her to open Cow & Quince within the first place; she’s now government director at Midwest Natural and Sustainable Schooling Service.
The brand new restaurant is known as The House Cafe and Bakery and it’s persevering with lots of the philosophies that guided Cow & Quince: contemporary, native, high quality components. “Consider us as a really eclectic small-town vegetarian Entire Meals,” The Home’s web site explains.
“It’s been very nicely acquired,” proprietor Kaylee Walters tells Isthmus. “Opening any meals enterprise is difficult. Opening a meals enterprise in a rural space is tougher. Vegetarian throughout a pandemic is further onerous.” However issues have been going nicely since The Home opened in February. After having labored at Cow & Quince, Walters says, “I’ve a really feel for a way enterprise goes in New Glarus. Typically you’re inexplicably very busy and a few days, fully not. I wish to suppose it balances.”
Walters feels that her restaurant is filling an area area of interest as a result of most different New Glarus eateries concentrate on heavier meals, Swiss specialties or bar meals. “We now have contemporary greens, salads, wholesome meals.”
The Home serves a wide array of tea and occasional drinks, housemade ice lotions, quiche, soup of the day, candy potato broccoli soup, Thai inexperienced curry, a banh mi bowl, a number of salads, and breakfast tacos (with Thai, “Midwesty” and Texan fillings). There are additionally plenty of candy treats, from cookies to pies.
The Home Cafe and Bakery is at the moment open Tuesday by means of Sunday at 407 2nd St., New Glarus. Some days the cafe is open for breakfast and lunch, some days for dinner, and a few days for all three; verify the web site or name 608-636-2162 for day by day hours.
The Ready Set is Matthew Stebbins’ new enterprise in Oregon, Wisconsin. Stebbins, a co-owner of Brothers Three Bar & Grill and Natt Spil, has been engaged on The Prepared Set for about 13 months, he says, longer than he’d anticipated. He set his sights on Oregon as one of many extra underserved bed room communities round Madison. “I’ve a optimistic outlook,” Stebbins says about eating places rising from the pandemic. “With individuals in Dane County having a excessive vaccination charge, and people who find themselves eating in following the [masking] guidelines, I feel individuals are snug going again to eating places. Individuals need to get again to some stage of normalcy.” Nonetheless, the objective is to maintain each diners and staff as secure as potential.
As for The Prepared Set, it’s not fairly prepared or set, however Stebbins hopes to open within the former Charlie’s on Primary house at 113 S. Primary St. within the first couple weeks in January. “It’s going to be up to date American meals,” which he says is definitely a code time period for “We’re going to cook dinner no matter we would like.” However the mainstays might be sandwiches, burgers, and handmade pastas, in addition to pizza. Pizza is considerably of an insurance coverage coverage if there’s “one other pivot sooner or later” — pizza is one meals for positive that thrives with supply and takeout.
“Largely we would like the meals to be approachable and considerate,” he says.
Stebbins’ has one other new mission in Middleton, a part of the redevelopment of the outdated Tumbledown Trails golf course as the brand new Pioneer Pointe 13-hole golf course on Mineral Level Street. “We’ll be the anchor tenant with meals and beverage,” says Stebbins, who tasks a June opening. It’s an enormous house, however he thinks that can work out with it getting used as an occasion house for weddings.
“We’re making an attempt to make issues work, as a lot as severe stuff remains to be happening,” he says. “We’re discovering higher and safer methods to do issues.”
Delicacies of Asia is open at 506 State St. in a protracted vacant house that was briefly a build-you-own pizza spot referred to as Lotsa Stone Fired Pizza and a very long time in the past, Pic-a-Ebook (in the event you keep in mind that). It’s proper subsequent door to a different Asian restaurant, Koi Sushi, and nearly proper throughout the road from Chen’s Dumpling Home. Style of Sichuan is only a few storefronts down from Chen’s. It’s an unlikely pileup of largely Chinese language menus, however Delicacies of Asia is a type of Asian and Cajun seafood boil locations. (Of which there’s one other— Mad Seafood Boiler — about two blocks away.) Delicacies of Asia augments its seafood feasts with ramen, bao, rice platters and dumplings. Additionally it is the previous Mr. Seafood, which moved, (gaining a brand new title) from the previous Wah Kee Noodle web site within the Gateway Mall. That storefront is now occupied by Double 10 Mini Hotpot, previously on South Park Avenue, which was displaced by growth earlier than the pandemic hit.
And on the opposite facet of the Sq., Little Palace is prepping to open at 225 King St. within the former Mr. Kimchi, which closed early within the yr. (Over time the house has housed Cocoliquot, Restaurant Muramoto and Cuco’s Mexican Fusion.) The operators describe the menu as “American Chinese language with Tiki drinks.” Little Palace is beginning with some mushy opens in the course of the week earlier than Christmas. Preserve an eye fixed out for its full opening.
[Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional information about Double 10 Mini Hotpot and Mr. Seafood.]
