After That’s My Dog closed its restaurant in Jeffersonville, Indiana close to the Massive 4 Bridge, a neighboring idea was fast to snap up the house.
Bobby Bass, who owns the restaurant and gaming venue Union Restaurant and GameYard subsequent door to the house, will flip the previous sizzling canine restaurant at 125 W. Chestnut St. right into a wholesome bowls quick-service restaurant known as Bocce Bowls, opening in November.
Bocce Bowl will work along with GameYard, however can be its personal idea, serving wholesome build-it-yourself bowls alongside two bocce ball courts.
“We wished to do one thing new, not simply Union half two or one thing,” Bass stated. “We wished to supply one thing very wholesome to distinction from what Union gives, and we predict with the strolling bridge close by individuals will prefer it as effectively.”
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Bocce ball, initially developed in Italy, is a group sport much like bowling, with the aim to throw your bocce balls nearer to the “jack” ball than the opposing group. After both sides bowls as soon as, the group that doesn’t have the closest ball to the jack will get to bowl, till one group or the opposite has used their 4 balls. Groups obtain one level for every ball nearer to the jack than the closest ball of the opposing group. Video games range in size however can go from seven to 13 factors.
Bass stated the 2 bocce ball courts can be lengthy sufficient for a number of gamers to be on every courtroom. The restaurant has loads of out of doors seating, drink rails with a view of the bridge, and a deck. Whereas the menu continues to be being developed, Bass stated the restaurant will serve at the very least one breakfast and one dessert bowl.
Each ideas are owned by Bass’s firm Southern Hospitality Group, although the Bocce Bowl idea is created in partnership with enterprise accomplice Levi Donaldson.
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Union Restaurant and GameYard is a $2 million project that opened last September, providing a restaurant, 4 totally different bars, personal occasion areas and a big out of doors turf-covered sport house.
“The deck from Bocce Bowl leads proper into the sport yard,” Bass stated. “I believe [these concepts] are going to play effectively collectively. I might like to do extra of those sooner or later, so I actually wish to nail the texture and menu.”
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