Still more downtown dining: Toast

The completion of the downtown streetscape work has brought with it a number of new downtown restaurant announcements, notably Dos Perros (from Jujube's Charlie Deal) and Revolution (from Jim Anile, late of Il Palio), but also including the nonprofit-meets-restaurant Front Street Cafe and the ever-tasty Locopops.

As great as most of the new restaurant announcements have sounded, most of the new offerings, like Piedmont and Rue Cler before, cater to gastronomes more than office gnomes. One think missing out of the equation has been an honest-to-goodness corner restaurant/cafe (and no, I'm still not ready to put Symposium in that category.)

So I was excited to hear yesterday's announcement that Kelli and Billy Cotter are planning to open up Toast, a restaurant on West Main Street at Five Points, by the end of the calendar year. Grilled paninis and soups will be on the menu, along with wine by the glass and perhaps bottle. Making Toast a great "neighborhood cafe" for Durham is the stated goal -- marking the arrival of more casual, everyday dining in downtown Durham.

More news on this one as it becomes available.

Comments

[Toastie]

I guess I'll have to check that one out. Maybe they'll call their sandwiches "toasties" like they do in the UK.

[Matt]

Mmmmm.
Food.

[Hovercraft]

Slow on the uptake here...isn't Front Street at Loehmann's Plaza (or whatever it's called now)?

[Phil]

"gastronomes/office-gnomes" Heh.

Thanks for the updates.