The location was formerly a Moe’s Southwest Grill that closed in July 2010, and the new restaurant represents the continuation of a surge in local restaurant activity reflected in the large number of entrepreneurs who resurrected vacant commercial properties that previously housed restaurants.
The list of Dayton-area restaurants that opened in 2010 — or which started renovations with plans to open in 2011 — in former restaurant properties vacant for at least six months now exceeds 20.
The signs on the door of the former Moe’s promises another Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers is “coming soon,” but Byers told the Dayton Daily News that he will blend the menus and concepts of Carmel’s and his two Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers into his new CBCB Bar & Grill to accommodate customers in the Wright State University, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Beavercreek areas.
“It will be a hybrid of sorts, sort of a ‘new and improved’ Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers,” Byers said.
The new restaurant will add to the Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers dinner menu some of Carmel’s specialties such as fajitas, quesadillas and Tex-Mex wraps, and will develop deli sandwiches later this year as well, Byers said.
In addition, the restaurant will be open for breakfast, offering grab-and-go carryout items as well as a sit-down breakfast menu, Byers said.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2258 or mfisher@DaytonDailyNews.com.
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