Eggs Up Grill opened its doors this week in Gastonia.

The South Carolina-based chain opened Monday, January 17 at 2609 S. New Hope Road, in the Food Lion mall at the corner of Redbud Drive and South New Hope Road.

The 4,000 square foot space housed the former Round Bistro, which closed in 2018.

Eggs Up Grill in Gastonia will be open from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., seven days a week. The restaurant serves breakfast, brunch, and lunch.

This is the first Eggs Up Grill for Gaston County and for Keith Moore and his wife Soumitra. For what it’s worth, Keith Moore was having breakfast at the restaurant on Tuesday morning.

“What drew my wife and I to Eggs Up Grill was how family oriented it is. It’s a place where the family can gather and enjoy breakfast classics,” Moore said in a statement released by the company. “The concept of breakfast and lunch, as well as its opening hours, are very convincing. Also, the brand is community-centric and that’s important to us.

Eggs Up Grill menu items include eggs, hash browns, oatmeal, pancakes, waffles, French toast, sandwiches, burgers, wraps, and salads. Eggs Up Grill also serves regular coffee and specialty coffee drinks, as well as mimosas.

The restaurant has enough space for 116 people. The restaurant also has a “community room”, separate from the usual dining room, as well as an outdoor patio that can accommodate up to 24 people.

The dining room has both tables, a bar area and benches.

Moore has worked in the restaurant industry for 15 years, holding various leadership positions within IHOP. Moore has managed 22 IHOP restaurants along the East Coast in one form or another – including IHOP on Cox Road, which the franchisee closed in April 2020. A new franchisee now operates the Gastonia IHOP.

The Moores are interested in opening a new restaurant in Gastonia and believe there is great potential for the future.

“Eggs Up Grill’s values ​​along with our return to business in Gastonia at this great location make this a great opportunity,” Moore said.

The Moores have lived in Gastonia for 10 years, though they’ve moved back to town from Spartanburg, South Carolina

The Gastonia restaurant will employ a total of 28 people and is actively recruiting. Interested people can apply at eggupgrill.com or visit the restaurant and ask for the duty manager.

Supporters of the Egghill breakfast restaurant say the place opens today, October 29, in Edgehill Village.

Veteran chefs Parkes Brittain (The 404) and Luke Williams (Tailor Nashville) oversee the business, which will be located at 1201 Villa Place.

“Ever since we introduced Egghill’s idea, people in the area have told us that a quality breakfast spot is needed,” Brittain said. “It’s a thriving neighborhood where people are on the go with their jobs, businesses and families. A quick, gourmet breakfast option is something our neighbors tell us they are going to embrace.

Egghill will share an address with Jack Brown’s Beer and Burger Joint, a regional chain backed by the local private equity firm and holding company Blackbird Capital. Blackbird Capital is the investor in Egghill, which will occupy approximately half of the space that once housed Edgehill Café, according to a statement. The space is adjacent to Jack Brown’s, which opened in late 2019.

Egghill is touted as specializing in artisan breakfast sandwiches with locally sourced ingredients. The company will target Music Row officials, Edgehill residents, and faculty, staff and students at Vanderbilt and Belmont Universities looking for a “high-quality, quick breakfast option,” the company notes. communicated.

“Our investments in the hospitality industry are aimed at simple concepts that have a big impact,” Chenault Sanders, director of Blackbird Capital, said in the statement. “Busy people should always expect good food for breakfast. We are excited about Egghill and the scalability of the concept.

Egghill’s hours of operation are Wednesday to Friday, 7 a.m. to noon, and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Egghill will be closed on Monday and Tuesday.

Phong Lan reopens dining facility in downtown Cedar Rapids

La Cantina Bar & Grill’s former location at First Avenue East and Second Street Southeast in downtown Cedar Rapids will soon be home to Barrel House. The small eastern Iowa chain is also rooting in Marion. (Photo courtesy of GLD Commercial Real Estate)

Breakfast Bar by Saucy Focaccia opens Wednesday, June 9 at 1950 Blairs Ferry Rd., Suite 116, Hiawatha.

The new establishment, from the owners of two Saucy Focaccia restaurants in Cedar Rapids, joins another new restaurant at the Peck’s Landing development in Hiawatha. Paradise Indian Grill also moved there from Cedar Rapids on April 30.

The new breakfast restaurant’s menu includes an assortment of pancake and waffle options like sweet creme pancakes and fried French toast, Eggs Benedict options like Pork Belly and Rib-eye Breakfast Steak, and breakfast sandwiches. The mimosa menu includes varieties of cocktails like caramel apple, orange cream and peach.

The hours listed on the door were 7am-2pm for dining and 6am-1pm for drive-thru.

Phong Lan reopens its dining room

Phong Lan reopened its dining hall on June 1 after a long period of transportation only during the pandemic.

The Vietnamese restaurant offers a variety of popular Southeast Asian dishes, including its popular pho and spring rolls, at 216 Eighth St. SE in downtown Cedar Rapids.

Phong Lan is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Saturday.

Barrel House comes to downtown Cedar Rapids

Less than two months after announcing a new Marion location, Barrel House has announced plans for a location in downtown Cedar Rapids, which will open in October.

“The upscale corner of First Avenue East and Second Street SE will be revived with traditional tavern flair, specialty cocktails and an exceptional selection of local beers on tap,” GLD Commercial Real Estate said in a press release.

The new location will occupy the 3,500 square foot space formerly occupied by La Cantina Bar & Grill.

Barrel House founder Jimmy Holt said he recognizes the effect of COVID-19 on downtown Cedar Rapids and the lack of dining options.

“We saw an opportunity to be at the forefront of the recovery and hope others will follow,” Holt said.

The Marion store will open this summer. Barrel House has locations in Davenport, Dubuque and Moline, Illinois.

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When former Motley Cow Cafe general manager Peter Kessler saw the beloved Northside restaurant close last year, he knew three things: he wanted to open his own restaurant, he wanted to open it in the Northside of Iowa City and he wanted to serve breakfast.

All of these goals will be achieved when Kessler and his staff open the Goosetown Cafe this week. The cafe will open at the location of the former Northside Bistro, 203 N. Linn St., Iowa City.

With an all-day breakfast menu that’s a “fun and youthful twist on classic American breakfast,” Kessler said, Goosetown will feature homemade Pop-Tarts, eclectic scrambled eggs, adventurous cereal bowls and more. Again.

The restaurant will also have a dinner menu, but Kessler said the restaurant’s menu will focus on breakfast.

Kessler worked with David Wiesnek, former owner and chef of Motley Cow, to develop the extensive breakfast menu. Taking insights from one of the city’s most respected chefs was helpful in differentiating the restaurant menu from two other Northside neighbors, Hamburg Inn No. 2 and Bluebird Diner – arguably the two most successful breakfast restaurants. most popular in Iowa City. Queues at the gates of both are a regular sight on weekend mornings.

“We’re opening a breakfast restaurant in a breakfast neighborhood. My goal was not to do what other people were doing,” Kessler said. “They do it well, and there is no need to provide an already provided breakfast menu. There are already long lines of people here who want breakfast. Why not come up with something new for these hours of the day? “

To bring something new to the Iowa City breakfast scene, Kessler has recruited former Atlas and One Twenty-Six chef Tyler Leiss as Goosetown’s chef to lead the kitchen that will bring touches. imaginative at breakfast.

Instead of cinnamon buns, Kessler said Goosetown will serve fried banana tempura with ice cream and chocolate syrup. Instead of Danish, homemade Pop-Tarts, stuffed and flavored with local chokeberry berries. Scrambled bowls with locally made bologna, cheese and tofu, breakfast sandwiches, cereal bowls and more will fill the breakfast menu.

Leiss said he had the most fun in his new kitchen building the Pop-Tarts. “It’s one of those things that will sell really well because it’s so identifiable,” he said. “But not many people have probably had one home made.”

He added that Pop-Tarts will be cheaper and faster at the table – Leiss believes they will sell like hot cakes.

Goosetown will also offer a full dinner menu, which is still being finalized, as well as a full service bar.

Becca Breazeale, who will head the bar program in Goosetown, said it will offer “high strength, low strength and no strength” drinks. While there are drinks with higher alcohol content, lighter drinks mean people can stop before or during the workday and “not trip down the stairs when they return to work.”

Breazeale said she has paid special attention to building tasty and vibrant proof-free cocktails, or non-alcoholic cocktails, to ensure that even those who don’t drink alcohol can have a fun drink.

In addition to a traditional Bloody Mary, Goosetown will also serve a green Bloody Mary made with tomatillos and other green vegetables.

With breakfast all day, Kessler said Goosetown will open at 7 a.m. and stay open until the bar closes after 10 p.m. Wednesday through Monday. The restaurant will be closed only on Tuesday.

The closure every Tuesday instead of Sunday or Monday like many other restaurants is a direct nod to people who work in the food industry. Keller, who has worked in restaurants for a decade, said many in the food industry have Sundays and Mondays off, so he wants to be an unofficial home for cooks, waiters, managers and the like in the world. food industry in Iowa City.

With around 15 staff in the front of the house and 15 in the kitchen, Kessler said Goosetown should be able to accommodate 99 people inside and 16 outside.

Since the sudden closure of Northside Bistro in early January, the space has quickly transformed as Kessler aims to make the space look and feel much more open. Gone are the awnings over the large windows on the outside that blocked the sunlight. Gone are the walls that divided the space inside. He wants to make the restaurant as open and welcoming as possible.

“We want this to be accessible to a lot of people. Hopefully we can be a community hub for the Northside and the rest of Iowa City,” Kessler said.

The restaurant’s name comes from the Goosetown neighborhood in the north corner of Iowa City, just off the Northside. The neighborhood got its own name because many of its residents owned geese and let them out every morning.

The addition of Goosetown Cafe is just the latest step in the must-see transformation of Northside’s commercial landscape.

Motley Cow closed in 2017, prompting Kessler to find his own restaurant. A fish and meat market is currently underway in space.

The Home Ec workshop moved from Linn Street to Jefferson Street, allowing the new Willow and Stock flower shop to open last year. Taste of China was closed and bought by neighbor Sonny’s Tap in 2017. Sonny’s Tap replaced IC Ugly’s, which was bought by local real estate agent Tracy Barkalow in 2016. Decorum, the former antique store, has closed and El Bandito’s recently expanded to the old store location. In 2015, Linn Street Cafe closed and Bashu opened in its place the following year.