Scott’s Addition welcomes Stronghill Dining Company
Just across the street from Buz & Ned’s, there’s a new place for residents from the Fan and from Northside to meet over a cold beer and a warm meal. Style Weekly has the scoop on Stronghill Dining Company:
It took two years â âlike watching your own hair grow,â Rob Weaver says â but sometimes an inexplicable wait makes the payoff even sweeter. Thatâs pretty much the case with the cityâs newest restaurant, Stronghill Dining Company, which opens this week at 1200 N. Boulevard. Itâs a collaboration of experienced friends who are ready to run full-throttle, and it promises a new kind of Southern hospitality.Weaver and his wife, Jessica, local entrepreneurial legends for a string of thriving businesses including River City Tattoo, arenât claiming to be restaurateurs and arenât as interested in profit margins as they are in their mission and the people theyâve recruited.
General manager Cole Bucholtz, executive chef Owen Lane and a whoâs who of local servers and bartenders â âheavy hitters I donât have to micromanage,â as Bucholtz puts it â will run the 88-seat business. Their esprit de corps is as obvious as their inked-up arms. âItâs our little island in the city,â Weaver says, âa community of people who know what theyâre doing.â