
Tender Mercy
607 E Third St Lower Level
Dayton, Ohio 45402
607 E Third St Lower Level
Dayton, Ohio 45402
Crafted & Cured has signed a 10-year lease at the historic Dayton Arcade to be a first-floor anchor tenant at 45 W. Fourth Street, Dayton, OH 45402. The lease is signed, demolition has started for construction, and Crafted & Cured is projected to open the beginning of 2021.
“We look forward to expanding our vision at the Dayton Arcade,” co-owner Christian Alvarez says. Crafted & Cured plans to build out 4,800 square feet with expanded offerings. Crafted & Cured’s mission is to serve the community with a full-service retail shop of craft beer, boutique wines, champagnes, cured meats and artisanal cheeses.
Photo Credit: Tom Gilliam
“We’ve always strived to provide a service that’s unique and memorable in a setting that pays tribute to our history,” co-owner Andy Routson explains. After announcing earlier this week the closure of their first location at the historic Deitz Block, Crafted & Cured is excited to continue their vision at the Dayton Arcade. “We believe the Dayton Arcade represents a celebration of entrepreneurship and artisanal food and beverage purveyors throughout Dayton’s history”.
Cross Street Partners, Model Group, and McCormack Baron Salazar are redeveloping the historic Dayton Arcade, a collection of nine buildings totaling over 500,000 square feet in the heart of downtown Dayton’s central business district. The full development plan will recast the Arcade in much the same way it was initially developed in the first decade of the 20th century—with a mix of retail, offices, event space and housing.
The first phase of the project, the South Arcade, will consist of an innovation center with the University of Dayton as a higher education partner in addition to a 110-unit residential LIHTC and market rate development for artists and creative entrepreneurs.
For construction and opening updates, follow Crafted & Cured and the Dayton Arcade on Instagram and Facebook.
Five years ago Crafted & Cured opened the doors at 521 Wayne Avenue, in the District Provisions building. Specializing in fresh Craft beer/Ciders with a 60 tap growler fill station and an amazing selection of cured meats/fine cheeses, basically introducing charcuterie boards to the masses in Dayton.
Over the past month or so they’ve had to close due to lack of air conditioning and other issues in their building. Today they posted the following on their Facebook page:
5-years ago, we signed this lease with great ambition to provide an unmatched experience to the Dayton community. Aligned with our intention, we valued the opportunity to revitalize a piece of history. Sentiments that we still hold dear today.
While we aim to serve the most unique offerings and create an intimate customer ambience, we have perpetually struggled with inadequate property management.
With these unresolved issues and the opportunity to end our lease, we’ve come to terms with this reality and have made the decision to move on. And while we would have preferred the opportunity to plan a seamless transition to a new space, things just didn’t line up that way.
Over the past 5-years, we’ve been able to celebrate, champion and build lasting relationships within the Dayton community. For that, we are forever grateful and fueled with a deep commitment to our hometown.
With that commitment, we have worked diligently to secure a better future and home for Crafted & Cured, aligned with a property management group better suited for our vision and values.
Thank you for the years of unwavering support, especially over the past few months. Our gratitude is rooted in our commitment to return in greater service to this community than ever before.
Stay tuned for a very exciting announcement coming this Thursday!
With the greatest of appreciation,
Andy, Christian and the Crafted & Cured team
So check back with us Thursday as we share their big announcement!
Join us for a special event (and daily Champagne by the Glass launch) as we explode into Autumn with Champagne and other sparkling wines from France! On Tues, Oct 3rd from 6-10pm the in-house wine guru, Giri Dodballapur, will get help from local sommelier, Michael Freeman, of Vintner Select. Experience Crémant (sparkling wine from French regions other than Champagne) from Limoux, Jura, Burgundy, and Alsace. The last wine will be a Premier Cru Grower Champagne that we plan on launching as a daily regular by-the-glass offering!
That’s right, Grower Champagne. By the glass. Only at Crafted & Cured.
CONSISTS OF 3oz POURS OF EACH $25
Add a pairing plate of French Cheeses $10
Domaine Thevent & Fils Crémant de Bourgogne Brut
Domaine Muré Crémant de Alsace Brut
Domaine J. Laurens ‘La Rose No 7’ Crémant de Limoux Brut
André et Mireille Tissot Crémant de Jura Rosé Extra Brut
Champagne Marc Hebrart Premier Cru Brut
BEGINNING WITH C4, ALL SPECIAL WINE ENGAGEMENTS WILL BE TICKETED IN ORDER TO TAILOR THE DETAILS MORE PROFESSIONALLY. PLEASE RESERVE YOUR TICKET WITH THE LINK BELOW. WE UNDERSTAND PLANS CHANGE AND UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES ARISE, SO A 24 HR CANCELLATION POLICY WILL ENSURE REFUNDS IF NEED BE.
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By Lisa Grigsby
Our friends at Glasz Bleu Oven as well as Jack Lukey’s Oyster Saloon and Caviar Bar, also known as the Mediterranean Grill on the opposite end of our District Provisions building, will be offering a sneak peek of their offerings from 7pm-11pm this Friday and Saturday only, to celebrate our anniversary. During this sneak peek, the Mediterranean will have 6 tastings available for purchase and Jack Lukey’s will offer two raw bar tastings for purchase.
Friday
Bell’s special tappings
Hopslam – Honey IPA
Consecrator – Dopplebock
Travis City 355 BA Stout
Kal-Haven Rye – Sour Rye
Mars – Double IPA
Other Bell’s tappings:
Amber ale
Two Hearted Ale – IPA
Oberon – Wheat ale
Oatsmobile – Session Pale ale brewed with Oats
Kalamazoo Stout
Saturday
Warped Wing Casks
Ermal’s on Habanero
Trotwood Mojito
Trotwood on Orange & Lime
It’s Champagne time! Join Advanced Sommelier, Michael Freeman of Vintner Select for a guided tasting of grower champagne to be paired with our new selection of cured meats. This will be an event that’s not to be missed.
The tasting will cost $50.00 + Tax and will include a flight of the following four Champagnes:
-Jean Vesselle Oeil de Pedrix Brut
-Pierre Peters ‘Cuvee de Reserve’ Blanc de Blanc Grand Cru
-Egly-Ouriet ‘Les Vignes de Vrigny’ Premier Cru
-Henri Billiot Rosé Brut Grand Cru
Paired with a charcuterie board of four including:
-Smoked Salmon topped with a micro green salad and Agrumato Lemon olive oil
-Iberico Cordobesa
-Toma
-Lardo Crostini
By Lisa Grigsby
Chef Lee Anne House first shared some insights about this new Wayne Avenue business a few weeks ago, and we posted some pictures from their Friends and Family night last Saturday, and now you can make visit Crafted & Cured at 531 Wayne Ave.
Open daily from 3- 9pm daily stop in and grab a growler from their selection of 60 taps, featuring ales, stouts, ciders, sours and meads. Or peruse the beer wall of bombers, six packs and singles. If wine is more your taste, the Wine Wall is filled with bottles or red, white, rose and champagne. They plan to feature many small wineries, giving you a chance to expand your knowledge and your palate. Crafted & Cured isn’t really a bar, but more of a bottle shop/growler fill station, where you can stop by and stock up on some great liquid treats.
This is just the beginning, soon the Dietz building will add cured meats and fine cheeses. After that, look for the opening of District Provisions, modeled after turn of the century style neighborhood markets. Further plans include the addition of a local butcher and a Latin market. Cheers to Andy & Christian – wishing you much success!
By Lisa Grigsby
Two and a half years ago, two friends and co-workers that shared a passion for craft beer and high quality cured meats and cheeses envisioned a unique space where you could find obscure beers, ciders and sours along with family owned, small batch wines and champagne. It took quite a while but finally their vision is coming to fruition as Crafted & Cured.
Together Christian Alvarez and Andy Routson have quite the background that makes them a great team to lead this inspiring business. Chris is a chef, with his degree from Le Cordon Bleu in California. He will be making all kinds of pickles, mustards, anything to go with their charcuterie.
Eventually, his goal is to cure their own meats in the market itself with other vendors. Wait till you see their meat slicer, flown in straight from Italy, it is an eye catcher. Bright red with a hand crank wheel to give you the sheerest of cuts on prosciuttos, this is sure to please with fine meats.
Andy is an avid craft beer drinker and trader. He is working towards becoming a certified cicerone. (A cicerone is a certification awarded to an individual who has demonstrated an expertise in beer service.) He comes from a family of entrepreneurs and has always known he wanted to own his own business. Obviously, one of the most important questions on the table during my chat with them was what their favorite styles of beer are. Andy loves stouts and anything barrel aged. Chris is all about those IPA’s. I am going to love drinking with these guys!!
Crafted & Cured simply put is a growler house, not a bar. This is a place to come taste some samples of unique brews and take them home to enjoy. Not only do they offer the growlers that we have all become so familiar with they also have a crowler! A crowler is a 32 ounce can to-go that they will right in front of you! Crafted & Cured will have 60 taps with 10-12 of those dedicated to ciders, sours and meads. Dayton has a great beer scene and we have been seeing the new trend of beer infusions popping up all over town, especially at Toxic Brew Co. Luckily Crafted and Cured has a Randall, made by Dogfish Head, to infuse beers right there at the bar! You will be able to pick from a variety of ingredients, from lemongrass to vanilla beans or cocoa nibs to make your own specially seasoned beer.
Not only will Crafted & Cured offer beer, there will be a whole wall of wines and champagnes that you can’t get anywhere else. They are working closely with their rep Mike Freeman to make sure they only offer small batch, family owned, grower vineyards. Mike will be available once a month for a fun educational night with tastings.
You don’t have to worry about a lack of parking, there is plenty! They have 9 spots available in the space between them and Wheat Penny and all of the surrounding roads behind them. Monday – Friday during the day till 4:30pm at the Theatre Guild, right across the street to the right, and from 5 pm on at the Behavioral Health Center on Wayne, also across the street to the left, and all day and night on the weekends here as well.
Crafted & Cured plans on opening their doors for a soft opening, prior to May. This soft opening period will last approximately one month and will not include the cured side of the business quite yet. They plan to master the beverage side of the business then launch a grand opening in coordination with the opening of District Provisions. The grand opening will mark the start of the cured side of the business. And don’t worry, District Provisions will open soon!
The rest of the building is going to be fantastic. It’s big and beautiful and full of potential. District Provisions is a turn of century style neighborhood market. It is designed to supply the primary grocery needs to the residents of the Oregon District, South Park, St. Anne’s Hill, and downtown Dayton. The focus of this market is to provide the highest quality produce, local humanely raised meats, fresh local dairy, organic health foods and unique household goods. We can’t wait! This is just what downtown Dayton needs.
You’ll find Crafted & Cured at 531 Wayne Ave, just 2 blocks south of 5th Street. Watch DaytonDining for their exact grand opening date.