A well-known artisan pizza joint that adjusted fingers in summer season 2021 is shifting in a new route, with a new name and expanded menu.
Food stuff + Consume, an eatery on St. Lawrence Avenue in Midtown Reno that Yelp not long ago named the 12th best restaurant in the U.S., is reworking into Dopo Pizza & Pasta.
Greg Buchheister, the proprietor of Reno-primarily based coffee chain Coffeebar who acquired Food + Consume in August 2021, aims to even further integrate an genuine Italian café working experience at Dopo.
Dopo, which indicates “immediately after” in Italian, is rolling out new menu items in the coming months. Making use of regionally sourced ingredients, Dopo will feature gluten-absolutely free pizza, fresh new housemade pasta (together with gluten-free choices), seasonal appetizers and desserts. New beverages will include Coffeebar’s own personal label Chianti, a coffee liqueur manufactured with Ferino Distillery and housemade limoncello and margaritas.
Dopo’s new interior will contain intricate geometric patterns and images of Reno builders, construction workers and other community members.
With its Italian translation, Buchheister envisions Dopo as a culinary continuation of both Coffeebar and the unique Food items + Consume that Buchheister acquired from Aaron Foster, the eccentric owner and actor who opened the restaurant just 1 month right before the pandemic hit the Reno area in 2020.
“It truly is like we’re building a movie sequel,” Buchheister told the RGJ of the rebranding.
Buchheister obtained Food stuff + Drink in August 2021, two months after Foster instantly shuttered the restaurant thanks to ongoing labor shortages and burnout.
As part of the deal, Foster was hired temporarily to practice the new staff in his culinary magic: ICSOUS (Ice cream sandwich of uncommon size) and the “fig+pig” (a white pizza with mozzarella and asiago cheese, fig protect, arugula and a poached egg).
“Aaron’s pies have been palms-down the greatest in city,” Buchheister stated. “I stated, this is far too superior to allow it shut.”
Food + Consume was not long ago rated 12 on Yelp’s major 100 US dining places of 2022, making it the only cafe in Northern Nevada to rank in the major 15. The list is generated dependent on Yelp testimonials and nominations sent in from the community.
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