Dinette

“The nomination can be validating,” said Sonja Finn of East Liberty’s Dinette, a semifinalist in 2009 and 2010 for Rising Star Chef. “It reaffirmed what I was doing: that I can have a restaurant and cook the food I want to cook and be recognized on Combine a retro diner and a newfangled city coffee house and you pretty much have the idea behind Dottie's Dinette, in its first week at 1080 N. Delaware Ave., directly across from SugarHouse Casino's entrance. There is no phone-book-size menu, explains The Do-Nut Dinette, a Ghent fixture for half a century, is set to reopen in June, with a new name, enlarged menu, more seating – and booze. The dinette, closed since August, was purchased by the owners of Red Dog Saloon, a few blocks away on Colley Avenue. The Food: Barr used to work as a vegan chef, so she understands food restrictions. Her menu caters to all types of eaters—it includes ribs and beef brisket, but also blackened tofu and millet burgers topped with avocado mousse. Most of her comfort dishes I was coming home from a late-summer dinner the first time I saw Saturday Dinette. The place is a corner diner like nobody’s built them in 60 years: wide glass to the north and east, with the original mid-century soda fountains behind the bar. But Dinette’s Melissa Nyffeler says her little restaurant has simply outgrown its E Olive Way home and that she is happily picking through options of where to begin the next step. “I really didn’t have the intention for Dinette to have a simple .

I tried to keep a low profile (not all that hard for a Dachshund), but one of them saw me. He tapped on the big ceiling-to-floor dinette window to say hi, but I growled. I can’t be bought with a smile, so don’t think I’m easy. Tum-tum-tee-dum. Finally, Dinette will be hitting the big-time — at least in size. Chef-owner Melissa Nyffeler plans to close the restaurant’s doors at 1514 E. Olive Way after dinner service on Dec. 23, and to move the restaurant to a yet-to-be-determined larger space. The wait is nearly over for the second restaurant from the team behind the Strip Club Meat & Fish. Last night marked the final pop-up for much-anticipated Saint Dinette, the upcoming restaurant from The Strip Club team. Diners met up at Minneapolis In the one room, alone the abandoned items included outdated computer monitors, mattresses, lamps, a silver tea set, a complete dinette set and an antique clothes iron that had to weigh at least 10 pounds. Asked if she planned on holding a yard sale .