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New restaurant to open across from Victoria Theater
DAYTON — A new restaurant called De’Lish is coming to the former Gregory’s Piano Bar at 139 N. Main St. across from the Victoria Theater, the restaurant’s co-owner, Tawana Knight of Miamisburg, said this morning, Sept. 7.
De’Lish is scheduled to open in early November, but will sell a sample item from its appetizer menu — Jerk Tacos, made from chicken or beef — this Friday, Sept. 10 during “Urban Nights” events in downtown Dayton, Knight said. The full menu will include “small plates” (Knight said she’ll call them “in-between” plates), burgers, pizzas, sandwiches, salads and soups. Breakfast items will include fruit cups, yogurt cups, and pastries.
The restaurant will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week, Knight said. It will employ an estimated 10 to 12 people.
Knight, a Dayton native, said she worked as a manager for a pizza restaurant and as manager of an Applebee’s restaurant in California before recently returning to Dayton. She holds degrees in hospitality management and culinary arts, and is pursuing an MBA.
Knight said she is a strong supporter of the arts and “fell in love” with the former Gregory’s location, with its proximity to both the Victoria Theater and the Schuster Center. Gregory’s Piano Bar closed in May 2010 after more than three years in business.
In a Downtown Dayton Partnership news release, Knight said she and Brown are “looking forward to being part of the downtown family. All cities need to have a great downtown, and we are looking forward to being part of that in Dayton.”
Knight’s business partner and co-owner of the restaurant is Jasmine Brown of Beavercreek.
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