The French Quarter Inn will house the new Ruth's Chris Steak House in downtown Charleston. File/Staff

After a four-year search, Ruth's Chris Steak House soon will fire up the high-end dining competition in downtown Charleston.

The chain's new restaurant will open this fall in the French Quarter Inn at 166 Church St., according to franchise co-owner Nancy Oswald.

Ruth's Chris will serve as the food service provider for both the French Quarter Inn and the new 41-room Spectator Hotel at 71 State St., which is under construction.

Oswald and husband Mark will partner with Jay Keenan and Batson Hewitt, who own the inn near the Charleston City Market. They also will partner with Charlestowne Hotels, which manages the French Quarter Inn.

The Oswalds announced in May 2010 that they bought the Ruth's Chris franchise for Charleston and wanted to open on the peninsula, but they wanted to wait until they found the ideal location. They wanted it to have about 10,000 square feet of space with nearby parking. The new restaurant in the former Tristan site will be close to that size.

The Oswalds also own the franchise to existing Ruth's Chris restaurants in Myrtle Beach, Columbia and Greenville and others out of state.

Other high-end restaurant owners, partners or managers welcomed the new steakhouse but offered concerns for different reasons.

"I think Ruth's Chris will do great here," said Mickey Bakst, general manager of Charleston Grill at Charleston Place. "Steakhouses have a great appeal to people. It will do a really big tourist business."

Bakst added that he believes the peninsula's restaurant market is getting more crowded, but not from a sales standpoint.

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ABILENE, Texas -

A new restaurant is under construction on Catclaw, just south of Dr. J's Express Care. City permitting records show it will be called Taylor County Taphouse.

We were able to speak with the restaurant owner, Josh Robinson.

"Our food would best be termed Texas comfort food, all made in-house from scratch and locally sourced whenever possible," Robinson said. "Drinks will center around a huge selection of beers from all over the world, a full bar with a custom cocktail list, and a wine list hand-picked to pair specifically with our appetizers and entrees."

Documents on file include plans for an outdoor covered patio. Taylor County Taphouse is locally owned with plans to open sometime this fall.

There's also something new in store for the old Famous Dave's on South Danville.

City records filed just last week show construction including a remodel and addition of 2,300 square feet is underway. The new business will be called Miguel's.

We will give you more details as they become available.

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ABILENE, Texas -

A new restaurant is under construction on Catclaw, just south of Dr. J's Express Care. City permitting records show it will be called Taylor County Taphouse.

We were able to speak with the restaurant owner, Josh Robinson.

"Our food would best be termed Texas comfort food, all made in-house from scratch and locally sourced whenever possible," Robinson said. "Drinks will center around a huge selection of beers from all over the world, a full bar with a custom cocktail list, and a wine list hand-picked to pair specifically with our appetizers and entrees."

Documents on file include plans for an outdoor covered patio. Taylor County Taphouse is locally owned with plans to open sometime this fall.

There's also something new in store for the old Famous Dave's on South Danville.

City records filed just last week show construction including a remodel and addition of 2,300 square feet is underway. The new business will be called Miguel's.

We will give you more details as they become available.

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By Patrick Hayes LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- The New Mexico Department of Transportation postponed construction on the westbound on ramp at Avenida de Mesilla on to the I-10.

A spokesperson from NMDOT said construction will resume by 8 a.m.Tuesday.

Tourists and business owners were happy to hear this is the last I-10 project schedule in Dona Ana County.

"Kind of ready for it to be over with already," said Shawn Steyskal, a vacationer from Silver City.

Steyskal stopped to eat at La Posta De Mesilla, a popular restaurant about ten minutes from the freeway.

"This weekend there's a lot of driving public out," said Tom Hutchinson, who owns the restaurant. "So we're seeing a lot of Texas license plates, a lot of Arizona license plates."

Hutchinson said his business hasn't declined as result of the construction but it is frustrating.

"So 139 is closed right now so it makes our El Paso customers have to get off an exit early or an exit later. So it can be a little bit confusing."

NMDOT saidit holds public meetings before starting construction projects so business owners know what to expect.

Drivers are urged to use extreme caution when driving through construction zones and to be on the lookout for people working.

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CTV Montreal Published Tuesday, May 27, 2014 7:39AM EDT Last Updated Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:02PM EDT

Police are looking for an arsonist who tried to burn down a resto-bar on Peel St. overnight.

Around 3:30 a.m. a Molotov cocktail was placed at the front door of Cavalli restaurant.

It did very little damage and may have sputtered out before firefighters even arrived.

No one was injured.

Rapidly the fire was controlled by the firefighters on site, which caused minor damage to the establishment, said Montreal police spokesperson Pierre Brabant.

However, the restaurant in question, once known for its high-end food, luxurious dcor and jet-setting crowd, has been under the watchful eye of police for some time.

The liquor board yanked the restaurant's alcohol licence for 100 days in January, saying Cavalli had become a hotspot for known gangsters.

In recent months whistleblower Ken Pereira told the Charbonneau corruption inquiry that Jocelyn Dupuis, the former head of the FTQ-Construction, was a regular at the restaurant, spending $30,000 per month on food and drinks.

Many high-profile organized crime figures also patronized the restaurant over the years, including the late Mafia godfather Vito Rizzuto. Members of biker gangs and street gangs were also known to have dinner there.

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Restaurateurs find a connection with Internet fundraising plans

Jason French wants to give you a whole hog.

Contribute $900 to his Kickstarter campaign, and you and your family will be the proud owners of a pig from Laney Family Farms/Eat Oregon First, butchered to your specifications. The meat comes with recipes for each part, for your nose-to-tail dining pleasure.

French is owner of Northeast Portlands Ned Ludd Restaurant, which is on its final two days of trying to raise $60,000 to help fund the construction of Elder Hall, a light-filled, vaulted space that adjoins the restaurant.

We have a strong reverence for elders and wisdom, says French, who opened Ned Ludd five years ago. We wanted to create a community-oriented gathering hall in the Shaker tradition.

The modular space would host private parties as well as community meetings, dinners, lectures, tastings, movie nights, classes on butchery and wood-fire cookery. It would host a childrens cooking camp, and be the home of the Portland Meat Collective.

Basically, it would spotlight and showcase everything French has wanted his restaurant to stand for since opening on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Failing Street five years ago.

Were not building a video game or a consumerable good for the nation, French says. Were building something special for our community, for Oregon.

The 30-day campaign for Elder Hall ends on Thursday. If the campaign is successful, it will be the largest Kickstarter restaurant project to come out of Portland, since the phenomenon began nationally in 2010 and caught on here a year later.

Three Portland restaurants have Kickstarter projects well underway, and seven were funded in the past three years.

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Going whole hog

Posted: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 4:14 pm

Construction Of New Taco Bell In Rosemont To Start 'Any Day Now' By TODD WESSELL Journal & Topics Editor Journal & Topics Newspapers

Construction of a new Taco Bell restaurant at 9463 W. Higgins Rd. in Rosemont, west of River Road, will begin any day now said Mayor Brad Stephens late last week.

About a month ago, the village-owned building that for years housed a Pancakes Eggcetera, and hot dog and pizza restaurants as well as second floor apartments, was demolished to make way for the Taco Bell. Since then, the property has been vacant awaiting construction.

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Look for a Culvers restaurant to open in September at the former Happy Joes Pizza location in Onalaska.

And for Big Boar BBQ to open a sit-down restaurant in August at the current site of its cookshack parked along Hwy. 16 in West Salem.

Earlier this month, J2EG Custard LLC, owned by various members of the Galen Bowe family, bought the former Happy Joes building at 835 Oak Ave. S., off Hwy. 35 in Onalaska. It has been vacant since September 2012.

The building will be remodeled and enlarged, as its slightly smaller than a typical Culvers, said Galen Bowes son, Jake Bowe, one of the owners of the new Onalaska restaurant.

It will be the 10th Culvers either entirely or partly owned by different combinations of Bowe family members.

We thought it would be a good location for us, Jake said. Theres a lot of traffic and its in a different part of town than the other Onalaska Culvers, which also is owned by Bowe family members. Construction is expected to begin in June, he said.

The new Culvers will seat nearly 100 people and probably will have 40 to 50 employees, Jake said.

Jerry and Donna Beyer started their Big Boar BBQ business in 2010. Since then, theyve been serving up Southern-style barbecue from spring through fall at a cookshack trailer parked along Commerce Street, near their Beyer Cabinets business in West Salem.

They bought a second cookshack last year and use it to serve their barbecue at fundraisers, county fairs and other special events.

Weve had customers who wanted (Big Boar barbecue) year-round, Jerry said of his and Donnas decision to open a sit-down restaurant. Construction began several days ago, and the restaurant should open sometime in August, he said. It will seat about 48 people and probably will have eight or nine employees, he added.

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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - The Chick-fil-A Cows were in the Little Apple Friday to help begin construction on Manhattans first stand-alone Chick-fil-A restaurant.

David Hamel, a former Kansas State University football player has been selected as the Owner/Operator of the new restaurant.

Hamel currently operates the Chick-fil-A in Topekas West Ridge Mall, and is relocating to the new restaurant in Manhattan where he spent his college football career as a punter for the KSU team under Head Coach Bill Snyder.

"One thing that I believe has been created within you know, Coach Snyder and just the town of Manhattan is this family environment and family atmosphere," Hamel said. "And so when I think about the partnership not only with Coach Snyder and the life lessons he taught me through leadership and his goals for success has obviously taught me what it means to run a very successful business and to be a great family man."

Chick-fil-A will celebrate the grand opening of the new Manhattan restaurant by giving away a one-year supply of free Chick-fil-A meals to the first 100 adults in line on opening day.

The new restaurant is expected to open in the middle of August.

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Jesse Johnson of Fripp Island, part owner of Boondocks Restaurant, stands for a portrait in the newly renovated bar at the restaurant on Friday afternoon on St. Helena Island.

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Some changes have been made or are underway at Boondocks Restaurant and Sports Bar on St. Helena Island, but the biggest addition is yet to come.

A new ownership and management team of Marlene Kiste, Jesse Johnson and Travis Hunter intend to add miniature golf to the 7-acre property on U.S. 21.

"That's kind of my baby," Hunter said. "I'm a huge putt-putt fan. ... I'd do putt-putt right now while we talked if I could."

The Boondocks team is working with Beaufort County planners to get permits for the course at the restaurant at 1760 Sea Island Parkway. It will have at least 18 holes and possibly 36, Hunter said.

Construction could begin by the end of summer, he said.

County planning director Tony Criscitello confirmed that the Design Review Team has been approached about the project.

The restaurant is also getting updated, as well. The new owners took over in early May. The upstairs bar has been renovated, and the exterior is being freshened to add curb appeal for passing motorists.

A concrete slab in the rear of the building will be converted into outdoor, non-smoking dining space, Hunter said.

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