Authored By chloe.morrison

Southside grocery store Enzo’s, which opened last summer, will be closed after June 7 to reopen at the end of June under the name Grocery Bar.

“We’re transforming the store to offer a chef-curated collection of groceries,” Christopher Lykins, communications and community manager for the new store, said via email. “We’re adding housemade pantry staples, along with a whole new menu of ready-to-eat, prepared foods.”

And chef Daniel Lindley, who recently sold St. John’s, is coming on board to help “reinvigorate my neighborhood grocery store,” he said in an online note.

“My very talented team and I have made it our goal to maintain the best parts of the store while reimagining what a community grocery can be for the modern home cook,” he also said. “We plan to offer high-quality groceries and prepared foods at reasonable prices. We want the act of shopping for food and eating to be social, local and simplified.”

Lykins said that the Grocery Bar, which is on the corner of Main and Long streets, will have a juice bar, coffee bar, butcher bar, cheese bar, sandwich bar, pizza bar, hot bar and raw bar.

He also said that there will be “friendly, informed Grocery Bar ‘tenders'” to guide customers through the experience.

While closed, the team will do taste tests, bring in new inventory and remodel, Lykins said.

“The goal is to open a whole new store at the end of the month,” he said.

Leaders are asking community members to provide feedback via this survey.

Click here to read an article about Enzo’s from June 2013.

Click here and here to read about the opening of Enzo’s.