BUSINESS BUZZ

The lowdown on what’s up with neighborhood businesses

Send business news tips to livelocal@advocatemag.com

Ramen

Is Coming

Cox Farms Market, the anchor tenant of the Sylvan Thirty development, is expected to open in January. Once the grocer opens, expect to see other retail tenants opening in waves every six to eight weeks, says Cooper Smith Koch, a spokesman for the project’s developer, Oaxaca Interests LLC. Those businesses include Matador Meat and Wine, The Pearl Cup, Sync Yoga and a ramen shop from chef Teiichi Sakurai of Tei-An and Tei-Tei Robata Bar. Sakurai had planned to open a fish market in the space, but last month he announced plans had changed. The ramen shop, Ten, will comprise about 750 square feet and have only about a dozen seats, with bowls of ramen priced around $10.

Hattie’s leases El Padrino space

Something new is coming to the old El Padrino. Hattie’s owner Tony Alvarez has leased the former Bishop Arts District taco stand and is planning a new concept for the space, says Monte Anderson of Options Real Estate. Anderson says Alvarez also leased the adjacent Oak Cliff Mercantile Building for an office and a gallery concept that is still being developed. Alvarez also is subleasing a space in the mercantile building for a concept that Anderson says he can’t talk about yet, but it’s not a restaurant, he says. El Padrino closed in November 2012 because the building owner decided to lease the space to Sarah Lombardi, who had planned a hot-dogs-and-frozencustard concept there but backed out this past May. Meanwhile, the original El Padrino café is still open on Jefferson.

Restaurants open at Trinity Groves

Several new restaurants, including the Morccan restaurant Souk and the beer-focused Luck, have opened in Trinity Groves. Resto Gastro Bistro and