In another score for the East Side of St. Paul, Jon Oulman, of Amsterdam Bar and Hall, 331 Club and The Sheridan room, is opening a restaurant, art gallery and retail space on Payne Avenue.

Cafe Lilla, which will be on the corner of Payne and Jessamine avenues, will be serving cuisine from Spain and Italy.

An initial menu online includes small, shareable plates, including Spanish bites like lettuce boats filled with smoked tomato guacamole and crab and broccolini dusted with smoked paprika. There are also Italian-inspired dishes like wild mushroom and duck confit risotto and lamb meatballs.

Oulman, who said he was bored and needed a new project, will also be curating the next-door art gallery that will feature rotating artists. According to the website, “works will include paintings, photographs, sculpture, works on paper, ceramics and textiles.”

There will be a pass-through door from the gallery to the cafe, which will feature live acoustic music that Oulman said will be quiet enough to facilitate conversation.

Behind the cafe, in a lilac garden, there will be ”soft music and lighting, fireplace, pizza oven and comfortable table seating,” the website says.

Lilla also promises an eclectic wine, cider and beer list from around the globe.

There will also be a small retail space that Oulman is calling La Femme. It will sell things like jewelry, bath and beauty products and glassware.

They are shooting for a November opening.

Cafe Lilla: 1110 Payne Ave., St. Paul; cafelilla.com