Chef Stephen Jones' much-anticipated restaurant, The Larder & The Delta, will open in a couple weeks.
The Southern-style restaurant will open on July 17, according to an announcement on the restaurant's Facebook page. "Surprise!!!! [W]e are so happy to finally announce our opening date," the Facebook post said.
It will start with dinner-only service on July 17 and 18. Lunch service will begin on July 19, the Facebook post said. Reservations are recommended as "seating [is] limited."
The restaurant is at Portland on the Park, a condominium complex directly south of Margaret T. Hance Park near Central Avenue and Portland Street.
"When you walk in, you’re going to feel like you’re a part of the south, and what it is," Jones said in an interview with ABC15 last year. “Portraits, drawings, full plantation field workers. And it’s going to be a place where people can hang out and relax and not feel too over the top. And eat good food."
Jones launched his concept a few years ago at Desoto Central Market in downtown Phoenix. He left Desoto last year to open it as an independent restaurant with a larger kitchen and dining room.
It had to be downtown.
“I just love the area. I’ve been looking for something that felt like a neighborhood to me in downtown," he said in last year's interview. “A legit neighborhood, grass out front.”
