Restaurants

Fueled in part by his winnings from the HBO Max show “The Big Brunch,” Daniel Harthausen will open his first full-time restaurant in the space where Carytown Cupcakes currently resides.

Its future home, Jewett-Bass Hall, is a two-story building that dates to 1870. The new restaurant’s name is a reference to the year the structure was built.

“There’s been a lot of versions of Sincero, but this is the first time we’ll actually get to open a door,” Karen Negvesky said of the business, which started as a pop-up in 2019.

The restaurant at 800 Cleveland St. in the Museum District was sold last week to a first-time restaurant owner who’s trying out a career change after years in the transportation industry.

The new location will open in an old Pet Valu and would be the wing joint’s fifth location in the region, adding to two others in Chesterfield County and two in Henrico.

The space has sat vacant and been boarded up since Asado’s closure in 2020, but local entrepreneur Jon Lillyman recently leased it for his new concept, El Taco Guapo. 

As a multibuilding project in Scott’s Addition approaches the finish line, particulars about one of its restaurant tenants have been revealed. 

The new from-scratch coffee shop shows the chain’s continued appetite for sites in the western areas of the Richmond region. Its first free-standing store in Goochland is also in the works.

Juan More Taco is preparing to open at 304 N. Robinson St., while Nuevo Mexico Restaurante #2 is heading to 301 N. Robinson St. 

“A $15.99 shake that you can’t finish is fun for a novelty, but nobody is going to come every week to get that,” one of the new owners said of their plans for new offerings.