Daily Archives: Oct. 11, 2010

On the Town with Carrie, Denise and you

Oct. 11, 20103:23 p.m.

Food. Friends. Fun.

They’re all on the menu Tuesday night at Oeno as my dining colleague Denise Neil and I host our first “On the Town with Carrie and Denise,” a culinary cocktail adventure if you will.

The plan is to gather on the patio at Oeno in Old Town Square at 5:30, eat some free appys, perhaps drink our signature ICTini and talk food.

There will be a formal Q&A where Denise and I answer restaurant-related questions (or, heck, most anything else you’d like to ask).

We’ll tackle some of the standard questions (When is that Chick-fil-A coming to Central and Rock?) and some unexpected ones (as tough as you care to make them).

Which is where you come in. Please join us and fellow Wichita foodies. It’ll be relaxed and casual and hopefully the start of a fun new tradition.

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Adrian’s owner contemplates a west-side restaurant

Oct. 11, 20102:04 p.m.

UPDATED — If you’re hungry for Mediterranean food but don’t have time for a sit-down meal, you may have another option on the west side in the future.

George Matta, who owns Adrian’s near 21st and Rock Road, is contemplating opening a fast-casual version of his restaurant.

He’s looked at the former Starbucks space near Central and Tyler and the former Firkin and Bull space at NewMarket Square.

“It’s nothing really concrete,” Matta says. “It’s just a thought.”

Nothing likely will happen for several months, if at all.

“Wichita is missing this healthy fast food,” says Adrian’s general manager Ashraf Jaradat.

The restaurant potentially would serve Mediterranean food Chipotle style, with customers forming a line for food and having several choices of meat and vegetables.

“Most people . . . they have no time to dine in,” Jaradat says.

The quick dishes would include wraps, gyros, sandwiches and shawarma.

We’ll let you know if a deal happens.

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You don’t say

Oct. 11, 20108:53 a.m.

“Have you ever considered decaffeinated coffee?”

– Wichita businessman Charley Stark’s teasing comment to the ever-exuberant Roger Ramseyer, Rotary Club of Wichita president, during a recent meeting

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Wells Fargo Advisors to move North Rock Road office

Oct. 11, 20105:44 a.m.

WICHITA — Wells Fargo Advisors is making a short jaunt down Rock Road from its current space in the former Thorn Americas headquarters near 37th North and Rock Road to new space at the Capitol Federal Savings building near 21st and Rock.

Wells Fargo branch manager Mark Douglass likes the increased visibility the new office will have.

“I love the area of 37th and Rock, but there’s not that much traffic up that way,” he says.

The northeast branch has been in 5,000 square feet since it was a Prudential Securities office.

Then Wachovia Securities bought Prudential followed by A.G. Edwards. Wells Fargo then purchased Wachovia.

“It’s been kind of interesting,” says Douglass, who has been with the firm seven years. “Sit at the same desk and this is about our third business card, I think.”

Four advisors from the northeast Wells Fargo office are moving to the Wells Fargo office downtown, which is former A.G. Edwards space.

There are 30 Wells Fargo advisors in the Wichita area, 10 of whom currently are at the northeast office.

The lease was up at the building, which is part of what’s prompting the move.

“We’ve always had way too much space there,” Douglass says.

The new office, which is on the third floor of the Capitol Federal building, will be in 3,000 square feet.

The move will happen on or around Oct. 22.

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