Max’s on Broad closed this spring. (BizSense file photo)
After a false start nearly 10 years ago, the owner of a local restaurant group looks set to finally open a dim sum restaurant, this time in the Arts District.
RVA Hospitality is planning to open And Dim Sum in the former Max’s on Broad space at 305 Brook Road, according to city documents.
Max’s on Broad closed in the spring after a 10-year run. RVA Hospitality, which also owns Tarrant’s, Tarrant’s West and Bar Solita, retained the space and began working on a new restaurant to take its place.
In a recent application for a Certificate of Appropriateness from the city’s Commission of Architectural Review, the restaurant group proposes to repaint the Max’s building and put up signage for And Dim Sum – a restaurant concept that RVA Hospitality owner Liz Kincaid has held onto for nearly a decade.
In 2014, Kincaid had been planning to open And Dim Sum with then-fiancé Sean Rapoza in a new-construction, mixed-use building in Union Hill. Those plans fell through and Kahlo’s Taqueria & Bar eventually opened in the space.
Renderings of And Dim Sum’s storefront and signage. (City documents)
The initial iteration of And Dim Sum was planned to be a Chinese restaurant featuring the small-plate, often dumpling-based dishes that its name is a play on. Details on the latest version of the restaurant are unclear, as Kincaid declined to comment on the concept at this time.
The changes to the façade of 305 Brook Road require CAR approval because the building is in the Jackson Ward Historic District. CAR is scheduled to vote on RVA Hospitality’s proposal at its July 25 meeting.
Around the corner from the building is the former Saison space at 23 W. Marshall St., which the owner of Ms. Bee’s Juice Bar is planning to turn into a cafe, and across Broad Street is Wok This Way, a rock-and-roll-themed Asian street food restaurant that opened in recent months.
Max’s on Broad closed this spring. (BizSense file photo)
After a false start nearly 10 years ago, the owner of a local restaurant group looks set to finally open a dim sum restaurant, this time in the Arts District.
RVA Hospitality is planning to open And Dim Sum in the former Max’s on Broad space at 305 Brook Road, according to city documents.
Max’s on Broad closed in the spring after a 10-year run. RVA Hospitality, which also owns Tarrant’s, Tarrant’s West and Bar Solita, retained the space and began working on a new restaurant to take its place.
In a recent application for a Certificate of Appropriateness from the city’s Commission of Architectural Review, the restaurant group proposes to repaint the Max’s building and put up signage for And Dim Sum – a restaurant concept that RVA Hospitality owner Liz Kincaid has held onto for nearly a decade.
In 2014, Kincaid had been planning to open And Dim Sum with then-fiancé Sean Rapoza in a new-construction, mixed-use building in Union Hill. Those plans fell through and Kahlo’s Taqueria & Bar eventually opened in the space.
Renderings of And Dim Sum’s storefront and signage. (City documents)
The initial iteration of And Dim Sum was planned to be a Chinese restaurant featuring the small-plate, often dumpling-based dishes that its name is a play on. Details on the latest version of the restaurant are unclear, as Kincaid declined to comment on the concept at this time.
The changes to the façade of 305 Brook Road require CAR approval because the building is in the Jackson Ward Historic District. CAR is scheduled to vote on RVA Hospitality’s proposal at its July 25 meeting.
Around the corner from the building is the former Saison space at 23 W. Marshall St., which the owner of Ms. Bee’s Juice Bar is planning to turn into a cafe, and across Broad Street is Wok This Way, a rock-and-roll-themed Asian street food restaurant that opened in recent months.
I love the concept and I love dim sum. However, I am guessing they are not planning traditional dim sum service. The space is not well suited for carts to be pushed around continuously, which makes me wonder how it’ll work. We desperately need better Chinese (and Korean) dining options in The City, and I look forward to trying it out.
I love Dim Sum! I hope they can make it work — it is rare to find a place that does DS.
Once I was in Manhattan’s Chinatown and some friends took me up some stairs one morning and the place seemed, for the area, to be as big as a football field!!! My memory is probably exaggerating but it was a huge space. They were pushing the carts around and I thought it would never end, but I kinda didn’t want it too…