new restaurant in downtown
Mary Jane Marcantel
A new restaurant has opened – ZOLIA – located across the street from the City Club – in the same building where Regions is located.
The food is unbelievable – the presentation over the top. The evening time has “smaller” portions – like a small salad that one person could not finish. I would hate to see the large. The salad was one of the best I’ve eaten. Their prices are very reasonable and couple that with the extremely exquisite food, you can’t miss. The only problem is needing to have the waitress help you maneuver the menu. You will see when you go in what I’m talking about.
They are open starting at 6:30 in the morning and close at 9:00 at night. They told me that lunch they are very busy but when we were in there we were the only ones there – a group had just left. I predict that when the downtown people, and others, find them and eat there, their evenings will be equally busy.
Thomas Schulze
Mary Jane,
Lucy’s is like that on 3rd. The night time restaurants other than the really expensive or restaurants that have suffered and stayed for years taking losses, have trouble at filling up at night. Times are a changing, and that’s good. I don’t know the numbers but I guess people are moving down here, if they can find a place under 200,000 and want a yard. The houses in B-town and S-Town are fewer and fewer.
If there was some form of residential economical place to live, that could promise middle class that it is safe here, and they would be protected from the outlining (other side of the interstates) federal and state housing that who knows are occupying; then maybe more middle or even upper class residents would want to move downtown (other than the love for being in the middle of the city where all the night action should be). from here say – those condos on Nicholson by the Chinese restaurant are like a million to purchase (who can afford that unless your Billy Cannon and use it for game day). We are mostly state workers down here, we are middle class workers commuting and suffering through traffic. Why is downtown so expensive to live? I suppose is the question. Tiffany and I are spending way more on our house note than we probably should be, but love it down here and are going to stay (7 years now). But if someone like us, a starter family, can’t find something under 200,000 to purchase, the burbs and traffic stays acceptable. And that means less people eating at Zolia. I’ll ask Tiffany if we can try it Wednesday night. Thanks for the update.
Thomas Schulze BTCA President