With locations in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Austin, Vinaigrette is a small chain of restaurants each of which shares one thing: “love of the place where they live.”
“Each Vinaigrette reflects a unique aspect of local design, history or ecology,” the Vinaigrette website says. “Each building is special to its neighborhood and city. They all involved restoration; we take cool buildings that have fallen on rough times and renovate them, giving bright new life to dark old spaces in need of love.”
Now, according to coverage by Community Impact, owner Erin Wade (who runs Vinaigrette together with partner Jeff Krolicki) has purchased the property where Vinaigrette Austin is located, at 2201 College Avenue. Now in possession of the site, Wade plans to launch two new concepts there.
The first is called Tiny’s, described in the coverage as “serving coffee and light bites.” The second, Live Oak Farmer’s Market, will be bringing “a bi-weekly market of local growers and makers to the neighborhood.”
It is, in other words, another way of Vinaigrette loving the place where it lives. Citing a press release, Community Impact says the move is described as providing the restaurant with a “stable foundation for the future,” despite “recent instability in the industry.”
“For centuries, restaurants have been places where culture, commerce and daily life intersect,” Wade says in the press release. “This investment is about protecting that role while adapting to changing cultural and economic norms.”
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