The Food Hall debuted on Saturday during the Madison Street Preservation Fundraiser in downtown Kinmundy.
The Food Hall is located in one of the two buildings on Madison Street that are being renovated by the non-profit group while a third has had to be torn down after collapsing.
The Food Hall is the creation of Beth Carrow who was looking for a brick-and-mortar location for her Dining Car business that started three years ago as a food truck. She says the concept of shared restaurant space is popular in big cities and will allow for a variety of food to be available in Kinmundy.
“The Dining Car does a monthly menu so it varies from Ruebin sandwiches and Gueros to all kinds of different upscale sandwich foods and sides. Then we have Kirby’s which is a breakfast joint. They have the classics but they also have some fun new different things with the breakfast burritos. We’re also signing a BB man, but we are not quite there yet. We have G Sweet Treats which does baked goods and coffee drinks as well.”
Carrow says breakfast will be available from six to eleven am Wednesday through Monday and the Dining Car will be open from 11 am to six pm for lunch and dinner. Carry Out as well as Dine In options will be available.
In addition to the food, other consigners will be welcome as well, including those who want to hang paintings on the wall and offer them for sale.
One of the three principals in the non-profit organization Brenda Altadonna is pleased with how the project is coming along.
“The next thing I think will be the offices. We will start working on the offices. We are also looking for donations and help to get the green space up and going. It’s a little too hot to plant grass right now, but it will be grass. We’re going to be putting up a wrought iron fence where the fence to just kind of beef it up and make it look really good.”
Altadonna says five offices will be available and will be rented on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis depending on the need of businesses. She says if there is adequate fund raising the offices should be available by the end of the year.
Altadonna says they received a lot of really good reactions to their work and the opening of the Food Hall during the Saturday event.
The others on the Board of Directors of Madison Street Preservation are Carolyn Green and Diana Brimberry.
Members of the Madison Street Preservation organization (left to right) Brenda Altadonna, Carolyn Green, and Diana Brimberry outside the renovated Food Hall. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
The green space area to be developed where the collapsed building between the two being renovated had to be removed. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
