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Chef Michael Hall, former owner of M Wine Bistro in Rocketts Landing, is opening a restaurant at 2525 Floyd Ave. in the Fan District.

The space has been empty since Jorge’s Cantina abruptly closed in September 2014.

Hall plans to open Spoonbread Bistro in the space this summer.

“I know people are going to think we’re going to have spoon bread all over the place, but that’s not the case,” Hall said. “It’s going to be southern, that’s kind of my thing.”

Hall said the restaurant, which will serve lunch, dinner and weekend brunch, will only have one spoon bread item, a white truffle. “The atmosphere is going to be a lot of copper,” he said. “We’re even going to have copper silverware.”

Hall, who was most recently a chef at the 2300 Club in Church Hill, said his vision for the restaurant “kind of fell into place” when he saw the restaurant space.

But Spoonbread isn’t the chef’s only project in the works. He and his cousin, Sheila Fitzgerald, also leased the adjacent bakery at 105 N. Robinson St. They plan to open Coffee Alley in the space, which will be a coffee shop and bakery.