Discover the Unexpected at
DaDa Gastropub BY MARY MICHAELS | PHOTOS BY JULIE PRAIRIE PHOTOGRAPHY
T
o most people, “Dada” accompanies “Mama” as a child’s first words. What you may not know, however, is that DaDaism was an avant-garde intellectual movement that started around the time of World War I. The general premise behind DaDaism was to prove that anything could be art if the artist declared it to be. It went against the standards of society and influenced
artists like Salvador Dali and writers like American playwright Eugene O’Neill. So, how did a word that is a century old come to light in the Sioux Falls restaurant scene? The credit goes to the owners of Parker’s Bistro, Stacy Newcomb-Weiland and Rick Weiland, and their circle of family and friends. In addition to owning Parker’s, the couple also has the majority role at
Icon Lounge and Events after serving as partners there for several years. With the change in their role at Icon, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, they decided it was time to look at the space in a different way – to innovate and to reinvent its identity. And so, last October, the DaDa Gastropub was born in the space that was previously known as the Icon Lounge.
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