CLEVELAND, Ohio – When Vic Searcy decided to develop Sauce the City Cleveland food hall at W. 25th Street and Detroit Avenue, a single driving force motivated him.
“I kept it Cleveland,” he said. “I use ingredients (within a few) miles from here. We try to resource local farms, Rid-All (Green Partnership) off of Kinsman. We try to utilize all Cleveland. It’s like full-circle economics. That’s what we stand for. Even with the art in Cleveland.”
What Searcy is promoting is an incubator-style approach with an initial quartet of businesses, similar to the genesis of Pittsburgh-based Galley Group’s former Ohio City Galley. That rotational restaurant space, at 1400 W. 25th St., closed at the tail end of February 2020, weeks before the stay-at-home pandemic orders took effect. Searcy was an original tenant in the concept and wound up staying the full three years.
Budd Dairy Food Hall is capitalizing on a growing trend: offer a diversity of vendors featuring mostly simple, inexpensive fare and a spacious, cafeteria-style place to sit and grab a drink.
The food hall, part of the locally based Cameron Mitchell Restaurants’ portfolio, opened Wednesday at 1086 N. Fourth St. in Italian Village.
The first-floor center of the space is occupied by Comfort Kitchen, Boni: Filipino Street Kitchen, Borgata, Cousins Maine Lobster, Cluck Norris, Modern Southern Table and Stauf’s, bookended by Pokebap and Tacos Rudos. A frequently rotating pop-up space, called the Hatch, is now occupied by the Cheesecake Girl.
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