Cunningham said he hopes meat-eaters will dig into the food and exclaim, “Wow! I can live off of this!”

“If people want sweetbreads and foie gras,” Renault added, they can go to La Petite.

Legume will be open for lunch and dinner every day but Monday, and brunch will be served on Sundays. Customers will be able to order appetizers to share, as well as soups, salads and entrées featuring such things as risotto, pasta and polenta served with vegetables as well as regional seafood.

There will be desserts and the kid’s menu will go beyond the typical fried chicken fingers. Healthy offerings for children are particularly important to the Renaults, whose two young daughters will be the taste tasters, Jessica Renault said.

Entrées will be in the $14 to $20 range, and the bar will serve craft beers and craft cocktails as well as sustainably grown wines. Cunningham said that he wants to look into sources for gluten-reduced beers.

“They have small traces of gluten, but not as much as normal,” he said. “Stone [Brewing’s Stone Delicious] IPA is pretty good.”