The Meals Person: New Italian, Mexican restaurants coming downtown | Foodstuff & Eating

Recognized for its variety of heat-from-the-oven jumbo, stuffed calzones, chain D.P. Dough is opening a new location at 166 Summers St. within the old Subway there.

Created back again in 1987 by “a dude and his mom,” D. P. specializes in offering ooey, gooey, cheesy goodness on college campuses in the course of the state. (The downtown Charleston location joins other West Virginia areas near Marshall College, in Huntington, and WVU, in Morgantown.)

Dozens of specialty calzones include every thing from Italian, pizza and chicken Parmesan to BBQ hen, steak, cheeseburger, Hawaiian and additional — or you can build your very own from much more than 35 various meats, veggies, cheeses and sauces.

Some spots also give wings, crispy tater tots, salads and ice cream.

Whilst the home windows are however included on Summers Avenue, I did peek inside of this weekend to see employees relocating about and partitions partially painted crimson to match the restaurant’s Italian menu. The company’s web page confirms the Charleston place is “coming soon.”

Stay tuned for much more specifics and an opening day. In the meantime, you can master much more at www.dpdough.com.

A block away at 241 Capitol St., a significant banner outdoors the previous Rock Metropolis Bakery locale — just a several doors down from the bakery’s lately announced Golden Bagel Organization heading in on the corner of Capitol and Lee — announces the potential opening of Cozumel Convey Dos.

According to an official Fb page, this new offshoot of Cozumel Mexican Cafe (with areas around the valley) will supply much more of a “fast counter” principle, alternatively that foods served in a common sit-down location.

“We are pretty psyched to be signing up for the downtown Charleston neighborhood,” the restaurant introduced final 7 days. “We hope you are as enthusiastic as we are!”

A neighborhood preferred of a lot of, Cozumel acquired its start out in Ripley some 25 many years back when the present-day owners’ dad and mom had a vision to start offering Mexican food to regional guests just before such sites grew to become so common.

For additional information about the menu and opening date, comply with “Cozumel Express Dos” on Facebook.

I have read from various audience who enjoyed the current cottage cheese soup and meatloaf recipes I shared from outdated West Virginia eating places. Now, let’s try out to track down a further.

“You’re so good at getting recipes from very long back restaurants,” wrote a person who asked just to be identified as a loyal reader. “Back in the ’50s, ’60s and early ’70s, we experienced a tiny cafe called the Toddle House with a pair destinations in the Kanawha Valley, the last one being a extremely small property on Washington Avenue in the East Conclusion.”

This was a new just one to me, so I leaned on my ol’ pal Google to learn this was a national chain of swift-provider diners back again in the day.

“They made the ideal grilled pimiento cheese sandwiches,” the reader continued. “A mate has an great recipe for pimiento cheese and when she shares some with me, I normally grill a sandwich. But what was even more specific was the chocolate cream pie they experienced.

“I know there are so many recipes for chocolate cream pie, but this one is by considerably the most effective you could ever have. Could you probably come across that recipe?”

There you have it, people. Make sure you tell me a person out there remembers the aged Toddle House dining establishments — and has a connection to it?