Popular Monroe food truck owner to take foot off gas to open Brodheadsville restaurant | Poconos and Coal Region

BRODHEADSVILLE, Pa. – A lady who turned her enjoy for cooking into a well-liked foodstuff truck company says she’ll before long open a brick-and-mortar restaurant showcasing her most well-known dishes.

Margaret LaFiura claimed she programs to open Sauce cafe in a previous Rita’s Italian Ice at 109 Marshal Lane, just off Route 209 throughout from the Tractor Offer keep.

For the earlier 8 a long time, LaFiura has operated LaFiura’s Rice All around the World foodstuff truck, which available a wide assortment of rice bowls as nicely as burgers, tacos and empanadas.

It has been common in Monroe County at road fairs, wineries, breweries and occasions at Shawnee ski location and downtown Stroudsburg.

But “I imagine we got a minimal exhausted – my kid’s acquiring more mature, and we obtained a minimal tired of breaking down and setting up,” Lafiura reported.

“And it is generally been a dream of mine to have a cafe – I necessarily mean, just to be settled in a cafe and serving a local community is my aspiration arrive accurate. So we located a excellent location, and we pushed forward.”

Just after about 4 months of scheduling and perform, the stationary restaurant previous 7 days bought permits needed to open, LaFiura said. Most of the renovations are accomplished – plumbing do the job continues to be, she reported – and “I’m hoping, by the grace of God, to be open in 3 weeks.”

Sauce will seat about 20 inside of, with extra tables with umbrellas outside the house.

It will feature LaFiuri’s signature paella – flavored rice cooked with meats, seafood and veggies – as nicely as other rice dishes and traditional Italian fare.

And, as the title signifies, sauces.

LaFiura explained she expects a person of the signature dishes to be a “flight,” or assortment, of sauces – much as men and women now purchase flights of beer or wine.

“Rice bowls appear to be to be pretty popular,” she stated. “I make them for vacations, I give them out.

“But the sauces that go along with them, like the lemon garlic sauce, the pesto sauce and the chipotle sauces, folks appreciate to dip folks like sauces. So I said, ‘Let’s do a bunch of dipping foods that we can provide men and women to sit all-around with their family members, provide your personal wine, deliver your very own beer, sit down and be cozy, purchase some dipping appetizers and a bunch of sauces.

“So I claimed, ‘Let’s do a flight of sauce – why not?’ So we are commencing on giving a flight of sauces with a bucket of hand-slice fries, onion rings with our arancini.”

The restaurant also will serve Pizza Fritta (fried pizza), flatbreads, and lunch burgers, sandwiches and salads. And even breakfasts on weekends.

She mentioned she identified the former Rita’s web-site “by opportunity – by passing by for the reason that it’s in our group, and I saw a ‘for lease’ indicator on it and it just felt suitable to us and we took gain of it.” She will lease the web page.

LaFiura is at first from New York, wherever she had a catering organization identified as Romantic Occasions.

When the household moved to Pennsylvania, she explained, they and a bunch of close friends commenced a dinner club, with family members every single month performing “these seriously major situations, themed.”

“And we selected Spain 1 calendar year,” she explained. “And we resolved to make paella the pretty conventional way. So we imported some pans from Spain – big, 3-foot-diameter ones – and we experienced this amazing paella celebration on an open up fire. It was just an remarkable encounter.

“So we hung the pan up in the garage, and we continue to keep passing it, and I’m, like, ‘There’s obtained to be some way I could capitalize on this pan.’ So I explained, ‘Let’s give it a shot. Let us go to a winery. Let us see if people actually want this things.’ ”

She claimed patrons at the winery beloved the paella. “People had been lining up,” she reported. “So we received psyched and we started out a meals truck referred to as Rice All around the Planet.”

LaFiura claimed she selected the title Sauces for the reason that, “We make a whole lot of sauces. I focus in my sauces. People check with me for my sauces all the time.

“I’ve been cooking for our church for the past 13 yrs. I prepare dinner for all the huge gatherings and I prepare dinner for 50, 150 men and women at a time. And I make sauces.

“I assume from time to time to make a great food items terrific, from time to time it can take a excellent sauce. So I made the decision that I was going to specialize in all these sauces and, guaranteed sufficient, people today like them. And so I stated, ‘You know what? I’m likely to title it Sauce.’”

Sauce is predicted to be open up 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays.