With The Falls banquet room already there for special occasions, and the Cafe and kitchen area taking up the entire west side of the building (with Jim Deal himself even surrendering ground floor space and moving upstairs to accommodate the Wells consolidation), Ramsey will finally have a dining option to Acapulco at Town Center.
This is BIG. Bigger than any Flaherty cramdown of yet more housing. NO MULTI MILLION DOLLAR SUBSIDY IS INVOLVED EITHER.
THIS IS PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVE INSTEAD.
THIS IS A RESTAURANT.
A RESTAURANT.
And a promising one. Wells Catering is already known for excellent quality food via its catering business.
Now there will be a daily menu, with the below menu scans showing what we can anticipate - at the start at least, and with daily featured additional options to supplement the regular items.
The scans are not good quality, but the best I can do with home network equipment, so to be readable I have not compressed them to normal page size. The hope is that the blog software will not try to, as the resolution after image compression is insufficient to read the thing.
I did not have a camera when stopping so I can only now present menu scans and not site preview photos.
But for a restaurant the menu is the biggest part of what's happening. There will be seating for over a hundred. Driving Sunwood, you cannot miss the new Red Awnings on the Southwest corner of Deal's building. That's the place.
Due to open very soon - Nov. 1 being the guess, plus/minus a week or so.
Contact info for the catering operation is online, here, with the Falls Cafe having a separate service phone:
763-432-5967
With things soon to be open, but not yet so, I am certain that the Wells folks would be at the catering numbers if you draw a blank on that number. Once open, I am sure the number will be active. Things look promising.
The menu is a trifold, with a fourth "wing panel" having desserts on one side, appetizers on the other. (The thumbnail images hopefully can be clicked to enlarge and read - however - if you only click an image the software gives you a "march-through," sequence where even at full screen the browser text is hard to read; hence, readers are advised to right-click the mouse and open each image in a new browser tab or window, for legibility.)
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| menu unfolded, front and back |
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| main back panels and desserts wing |
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| left and center inside panels |
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| right inside panel and Appetizers wing |
________________UPDATE________________
Mayor Bob Ramsey sent an email:
Eric,
While the Falls Restaurant is going to be wonderful, it is subsidized by the EDA. I would also argue that the amount of subsidy given to the Falls, if analyzed on a cost/benefit perspective of the COR and city, you would find that the amount of subsidy given to the Residents At the COR has much more benefit to the overall project.
Bob
I understand what Bob is saying, but the simple truth is, the Flaherty ramp-wrap-rental thing, if built and fully 100% occupied by 285 Darren clones, is a question of "benefit" Bob and I could debate until time itself ceases. I simply do not think the thing is of any value to the community - and a first rate restaurant is something all of us have craved.
Bob and I would do cost/benefit balancing in different ways. I think over time the Wells operation has consistently been a first rate benefit to Ramsey. More of the same, of that nature and quality, would be an immense benefit.
I understand that Bob is not saying that Wells in the community has been of minimal benefit and I am not implying that's his point. His point is he thinks the ramp-wrap-rental will be a benefit, while I think it will be a big boat anchor and it will not be occupied fully if built at the rents Flaherty has been projecting and it will not be, or remain, "upscale" with the understanding that such a term is loaded with subjectivity.
Furthermore, I see no multimillion dollar city risk attaching in any way whatsoever to the Wells restaurant.
Here are three "from the outside" photos in anticipation of where we soon can be getting first rate restaurant food in Town Center.
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| Viewed from driveway to parking behind building |
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| From across Sunwood - showing scale. |
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| Side plantings and outdoor dining area. |
Look for the distinctive red awnings while driving Sunwood within Town Center. You cannot miss it.
And again, while the new photos suggest there will be an attractive ambiance, the menu and food quality is any restaurant's nitty-gritty. Wells has a record of quality in that regard. Anticipate the best.
There appears to be more than enough convenient parking in the lot behind the building. For overflow parking or inclement weather the empty ramp is a short walk away and can be used to avoid vehicle hail damage while dining.