Stoney’s Fine Wines & Market is now Stoney’s Bottle Bargains. “We’re back to basics,” Stone (Stoney) Savage says. He and his wife, Diana, are focusing on inexpensive and uncommon wines at their Lower Greenville shop. As part of its back-to-basics initiative, Stoney’s is hosting a “Great Deals Under $10” wine tasting Saturday, Aug. 8, from 2-6 p.m. To sign up, call 214.953.3067 or email newsletters@stoneysbottlebargains.com.
The old Arcadia property on Lower Greenville is 65 percent pre-leased, and construction is almost ready to begin on a 32,000-square-foot building, according to property owners. They’re focusing on non-bar tenants, and they’ve announced that a restaurant and what is described as a “community market” will lease 14,000 square feet.
Yoga Mart is open for business. After selling homemade products out of the back of her car for years, Dallas area yoga instructor Marj Rash has opened up her own place. She sells products ranging from blocks, bolsters and blankets to clothes that can be worn on the street. Yoga Mart is located at 6039 Oram (next to Bangkok Inn) or visit yogamartusa.com.
Hot diggity dog, we’ve got a new restaurant in town. Eddie’s Deli, located at Abrams and Northwest Highway, opened up in June. Eddie’s boasts that it has “real Chicago hot dogs.” According to owner Eddie Lee, first-time visitors should try the Chicago Hot Dog, Maxwell Polish or Italian Beef. Get 50 cents off your grub in August with an in-store flier.
Something to look forward to — Chef Rene Peeters, former owner of Watel’s (a French bistro in Uptown that shut down in April), is investing in our neighborhod. He’s opening a café and market called World Piece at Greenville and Ross. Next door, Peeters is planning an antique store called A Few of My Favorite Things, which can double as a banquet room. He is also planning to open a new Watel’s, around the corner, on Lewis. Busy much, Peeters?
And/Or Gallery owner Paul Slocum, is moving to New York this fall and closing his gallery at Bryan and Fitzhugh. Slocum says after three years, the gallery wasn’t profitable and that “the Dallas art scene is out of balance.”
We’re losing the gallery’s neighbor, House of Dang, too. Owners Doug Voisin and Andrew Bayer are shutting down their shop to focus on their clothing line, also called House of Dang. Bayer says the new studio in Oak Cliff will have a small showroom for sales by appointment only.
After 47 years of operation, Belmont Garage gets a retro renovation. Sayonara dingy white walls, crud-crusted linoleum and outdated metal cabinets. Hello freshly painted brick walls, black and white ceramic tiles, and oak veneer filing cabinets, topped off with an antique display case serving as a customer service counter. It took garage manager Matt Yeager almost two years to talk second-generation shop owner Ray Lewis into jazzing the place up. “Customers feel comfortable in here,” manager Yeager says of the changes, “and they get to see the history of the garage and our contributions to the community. This is who we are, and people should see it.” They plans to renovate the garage bays next year. How’s that for an extreme makeover?
Did you know? Alberto Lombardi, owner of Penne Pomodoro, an Italian eatery that opened in the Lakewood Shopping Center a few months ago, is a big-time Dallas restaurant entrepreneur. This is the third Dallas Penne Pomodoro opened by the Lombardi family. Lombardi’s companies also own Pomodoro, Taverna, Toulouse, and five or six other concepts, with locations in Las Vegas, Austin and Fort Worth. Lombardi says he felt compelled to open something in our neighborhood “because my daughters and I all live in Lakewood, [and] I wanted to be part of its business community as well.”
