CHARLOTTE — The Tonidandel-Brown Restaurant Group is leaning into this turn-of-the-century grocery store’s history for their newest concept.
Wyatt’s Superfine is set to transform the historic Leeper & Wyatt Building into a four-story restaurant, capped with a solarium.
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That multimillion-dollar project was inspired by the original grocery store, which operated for half a century in South End, Jeff Tonidandel says.
The menu will dial in local produce, meats and proteins. Grains will be milled in-house for pastas and bread.
“The time period of the building — 1903 — is just a historic seminal moment in America’s food,” Tonidandel says. “We’re getting a lot of inspiration from that time period.”
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