Parkside Café Update by Style Weekly

The Short Order column in Style Weekly has an update on Parkside Café which is being built next to Crossroads. Already getting the hype and looking at a September opening. I’m looking forward to a new dining option.

Parkside Café’s owners, Brian Munford and Travis Milton, are taking their time to get it right — the kitchen is a floor-to-ceiling redo, bathrooms are big and accessible, and the design is one built on years of restaurant experience. But of course it’s the food that matters most, and chef Milton, who will be on site full time, is aware of hot-button menu items and the neighborhood’s desire for a smart new dining option. Latin street food, Indian, Guatemalan, Salvadoran flavors and smoked meats will form an eclectic and moderately priced, changing menu. The 50-seat establishment has a small window-front lounge instead of a bar.

Parkside is built in a former 1930s cobbler shop. “We found a 20-by-16-foot pile of leather shavings,” Milton says, “and they really helped preserve these old newspapers from World War II and things that we’re going to shadow box for the front.” For now, construction continues and a curious public waits for another sign of renewal near Forest Hill Park.