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Downtown late-night food options Local restaurants trying to win back crowds

By ANDREW GAUG

Y St. Joseph News-Press

ou’re hungry, you’re Downtown and the night is entering that time after 9 p.m. when most places stop serving food. Until recently, your options were limited.

For local restaurant owners Downtown, it’s a hard crowd for them to attract — the late-night food customers stuck in the habit of clogging the drive-thrus of fast-food restaurants or crowding traditional 24-hour eateries late at night.

In recent months, bars and restaurants like The Ground Round and Piatto 614 Downtown and The First Ward House on St. Joseph Avenue have been trying to draw in those often left to their fast food vices to satisfy their hunger.

When Piatto 614 chef Chris Frangiadis fi rst moved to St. Joseph to work at places such as the Bad Art Bistro and Snakebite Club, he had no transportation. Living Downtown, this proved problematic for a person looking for good dining who couldn’t fi nd any nearby but could easily get a drink.

“I couldn’t believe you’d go into a place ... and there’s nothing to eat,” he says. “That’s a unique situation because I’ve lived in Tampa, Seattle, Pittsburgh. I’ve never seen that anywhere.”

He adds, “There’s a void here, in terms of late-night eating. Like in Pittsburgh, where I’m from, you can’t really open a bar without food. ... They don’t allow people to get annihilated on an empty stomach.”

Opening the lounge portion of the restaurant, called Coppa, last month, Mr. Frangiadis says he hopes to establish a precedent for local businesses taking back

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Flatbread with goat cheese and eggplant balsamic marmalade in a jar at Piatto 614 the late night food crowd. His plan is a mixture — combine drink specials with food, like Piatto’s extensive list of pizza toppings and jars with flatbread and sell it to people cheaply. The restaurant offers a happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. and a reverse happy hour, with half-price pizza, from 9 to 11 p.m.

“Even if they don’t intend to stay the night here, they come for the pizza, have a late night happy hour and maybe go on to the next place later,” he says.

Remembering when Downtown St. Joseph had late-night food options, First Ward House owner David Allison says he doesn’t know why it went away. With all the bars being forced to close at 1:30 a.m. and people

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having no place local to eat Downtown, the city appears to be reluctant in embracing the college nightlife.

“It’s weird that Maryville is more of a college town than St. Joseph. I don’t know if it’s because the college is so far away from the Downtown area, but it’s very surprising,” he says.

Not content with only recognizing a problem, Allison is trying to help fulfi ll the demand for late-night food. The bar offers food until 9 p.m. on weekdays and 10 p.m. on weekends.

While Allison says they mainly sell

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“They are such an asset to this community,” Mrs. Weems says of the Raders. “They have a very, very rare skill. They can restore old stained glass and yet they can also create new.”

The Weems home on the corner of 11th and Messanie streets has about 30 stained glass windows designed and installed by the Raders.

They also are finishing up a backsplash project in the downstairs kitchen. It features 16 fish and a yellow submarine (complete with portraits of The Beatles in the porthole windows) made out of fused glass.

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Rick Rader sits in his Downtown studio in front of a stained glass piece called ‘Ella.’ Mr. Rader owns Tobiason Studio with his wife, Terri.

Couple turns hobby into business at Tobiason Studio

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When Rick Rader picked up his first glass cutting tool almost 25 years ago, he and his wife, Terri, never realized it would soon become their livelihood.

The couple, who both worked at a local factory at the time, were traveling through Omaha when Mr. Rader spotted a stained glass shop he’d always wanted to explore.

“You find out pretty quickly that anybody who’s involved in glass just loves it and they just want to share it,” Mrs. Rader recalls about that day. “(The owner) spent about half an hour with us, and that was all it took for me,” Mr. Rader says.

After that, he took stained glass classes and learned more so he could use the hobby as a way to relax from a job he didn’t care for, as well as make

a little money on the side.

When his factory job offered a buyout option for employees, he took the offer and used the money to start a stained glass business.

Since 1990, the Raders’ business has gone by a couple different names and has moved to several different locations in the city, but they’ve remained committed to restoring and producing beautiful works of art for churches, companies and private residences in the surrounding area.

Now their business, Tobiason Studio, has a permanent location at 302 S. Eighth St. Mrs. Rader says the small staff is constantly busy with pretty big projects.

“We design the window and we put it together with a vision in our head that we don’t get to see until that window is together and we actually get to put it in the light.

That’s the moment of truth,” Mrs. Rader says.

Though they’re still relatively unknown to much of the St. Joseph community, the Raders attribute much of their continued success to word of mouth by loyal customers.

“We meet some incredible people, and it becomes more than just a job.

You become friends with these people over time,” Mr. Rader says.

One such customer is Deborah Weems. When she and her husband, Fred, started building their house about 14 years ago, she immediately knew she wanted to have stained glass.

“Why have a plain window when you can have stained glass? Normal is boring, you know. It’s just not what we do,” Mrs. Weems says.

She met the Raders through mutual friends and there was an immediate connection between the two families. She was especially excited to be able to use local craftsmanship in her

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The grand jury report also details unsanitary conditions; the transmission of venereal disease to multiple patients through the repeated use of cheap, disposable instruments; a blatant discrepancy between the treatment of white women and women of color (Gosnell, who is himself black, reportedly had his staff escort white patients to the only clean room in the clinic); and the failure of local and state agencies that knew about Gosnell’s practices to shut him down.

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In addition to doing church and residential projects, the Raders try to support local arts and craftsmanship.

“We like to do things to help promote the arts in St. Joseph, especially with the schools now because they seem to be cutting back,” Mrs. Rader says.

For several years, school groups have taken trips to Tobiason Studio to tour the shop, learn about stained glass and make small projects to take home. Sometimes the Raders go to classrooms for demonstrations.

The studio also is one of the stops for motor coach tours through the St. Joseph Convention & Visitors Bureau, in which guests also can make their own creations.

Mrs. Rader says though her husband was the first one to have serious interest in the field, she had a turning point while working on a job at a church in Kansas. “(A church member) said, ‘It must be really rewarding knowing that you’re doing God’s ministry.’ I had not looked at it like that until she said that,” Mrs. Rader says. “... A part of us is going to be around for long after we’re gone.”

“Stained glass windows started out as a way, because so many people were illiterate, that they were a way for the church to tell stories and get those stories across,” she continues. “Hopefully people will look at them and be inspired or reminded of what God’s given us.”

Brooke VanCleave can be reached at brooke.vancleave@newspressnow.com.

Follow her on Twitter: @SJNPVanCleave.

Late-night eats CONTINUED FROM page 1 appetizers after about 8:30 p.m., he says the menu is a smorgasbord of experimentation for the customer, if they want.

“Sometimes people don’t even know we sell food late.

We have appetizers like nachos, fried green beans, fried cheese. If they want something and we have the ingredients, we can definitely make it,” he says.

Having re-opened the restaurant in October 2012, Allison says they’re still trying to gain firm footing in the area. With business continuing to grow, he says they want to open a pizza shop in the establishment for a late-night crowd.

“I don’t know if or when that’s going to happen. We still have questions: ‘Will people drive to it?’ ‘Will it be worth the time?’ That’s the problem with this city is it’s completely random,” he says.

The only restaurant to offer food until midnight Downtown on weekends, The Ground Round, is still trying to figure out the random ebb and flow of latenight customers.

Owner Marcia Hayes says sometimes they get business due to an event at places like the St. Joseph Civic Arena, other times it will be because of nice weather.

Mostly, she says it’s a tough barometer to gauge because most people aren’t in the habit of getting food late at night Downtown.

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“If there’s not much going on, it’s pretty quiet,” she says.”There’s not very many restaurants, so late-night choices are limited due to the availability of restaurants, I think.”

Other Downtown establishments such as Boudreaux’s and The HiHo serve food until about 10 p.m. on weekends. On weekdays, orders are taken until 8 or 8:30 p.m.

Mr. Frangiadis believes the late-night food scene can be taken back by locals; he saw it with Mad Mex, a small, 30-seat Mexican restaurant in Pittsburgh that turned into a multirestaurant, state-wide establishment.

“That place was so crazy busy that they have like 15 restaurants and some of them are big multi-course restaurants, but it all came from that,” he says.

Thinking about where people go after the bars close, Mr. Allison says he knows people will flock to something late at night if the option is presented and word-of-mouth is good.

“People aren’t going out to eat late at night Downtown because it’s out of the way.

I mean, people go to IHOP, Perkins, Denny’s and those are way out there,” he says.

“If you can get those people, you can really start something.”

Andrew Gaug can be reached at andrew.gaug@newspressnow.com.

Follow him on Twitter: @SJNPGaug.

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