JULY 2019 // CHARLOTTE 39
FOOD DRINK
EXPLORE THE TASTES OF CHARLOTTE
INSIDE: LOCAL FLAVOR REVIEW ON THE LINE DESSERT
Jamie Brown and Jeff Tonidandel
helped transform NoDa’s dining
scene. Now they’ve got plans
for Plaza Midwood
BY TAYLOR BOWLER
PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETER TAYLORJamie Brown and
Jeff Tonidandel’s
latest restaurant
project, Supperland,
occupies a historic
Plaza Midwood
church.Continued on next page âLOCAL FLAVOREVERY
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Jamie Brown and Je Tonidandel
would rather reuse historic buildings
than take up space in new ones. A
decade ago, in the middle of an eco-
nomic crisis, they opened Crêpe Cellar
in an 80-year-old former furniture store
in NoDa and turned it into a neighbor-
hood mainstay. Making use of such
structures takes time and money, but
they do it because they want to pre-
serve a part of the city’s history. “What
we’re doing isn’t easy,” Tonidandel
says. “There’s a reason there’s not more
old buildings in Charlotte.”
Three years ago, aer adding a bar,
a doughnut shop, and a Southern mill
town kitchen to their NoDa portfolio,
they turned their eyes toward their
most ambitious project yet, and in a
di erent neighborhood.
In March, they nalized the lease
on the historic church in Plaza
Midwood they plan to transform into
a restaurant and cocktail bar. Their
concept, Supperland, is a nod to the
traditional church potluck picnic and
to meat-and-three diners. They hope
to open in early 2020.