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Todd Butler is bringing Olio restaurant back to the Fan District - to 2028 W. Cary St., to be exact.

As recently as last year, Olio had two restaurants in Richmond - one downtown at 600 E. Main St. and one in the Fan at 2001½ W. Main St. Both were owned by Jason Savedoff, who was involved with the concept since there was just one location and it was called European Market.

But last year, Savedoff sold-off the concepts - the Fan District one to Matt Fraker and Jason Ferrell, owners of Frostings Bake Shop in Short Pump, and then the naming rights to Butler, owner of Butler's Unique Catering (the downtown location lost its lease).

In January, Fraker and Ferrell relaunched the Fan Olio as Branch & Vine and that's about the time Butler started looking for a Fan spot to open his version of Olio.

Butler found the space at 2028 W. Cary St. on the corner of Cary and Rowland, which is the spot where Luca Amato announced last year he was planning to open his version of his family's popular Chester eatery Sapori Ristorante Italiano.

Butler said the timing was fortuitous; he called about the Cary Street space the same day the building owners found out that Amato was backing out of the lease (Amato did do not respond to a Times-Dispatch inquiry for comment).