The chefs behind Hotbox are opening a full-scale restaurant in Avondale called the Wooden Goat.

Construction on the restaurant at 4100 3rd Ave. S. - the former Prestige Auto Imports building - will start as soon as the contractor is available, Chef Matt Ralph said.

The food will largely be similar to Hotbox, the restaurant in a converted Airstream trailer he and Ryan Champion operate in the backyard of Parkside.

"We do a lot of international food and stuff like that at Hotbox and it's kind of an evolution of that - a little Thai, Vietnamese, stuff like that," Ralph said. "We've developed a style over there, and we're going to turn that into a concept."

Wooden Goat earned approval from the Birmingham Design Review Committee on Wednesday. Scott Phillips of Boomhover Phillips Architecture is the architect. The pair aim to have Wooden Goat open by early Fall.

The restaurant will feature a large outdoor seating space, and about 40 seats will be partially covered.

"It's going to be right there on 41st Street, so there will be some good people watching," Ralph said.

Hotbox will stay open when Wooden Goat opens.

Ralph said he and Champion both live in Avondale, and chose to open Hotbox in Parkside because of the unique, relatively low-investment opportunity. But the proximity of the two projects will allow the two to help each other, Ralph said.

It's the latest in a string of announcements in the Avondale area, including Saturn, a new music venue, and Rowe's Service Station, a restaurant concept by the owners of 41st Street Pub and Aircraft Sales.

"It's interesting to us to see how many people are traveling down to this neighborhood as a destination, which is weird for some of us who live here," Ralph said. "Eventually, there probably will be a threshold for how much this neighborhood will withstand, but we feel like we're not there yet."

This article has been corrected to reflect the correct name of the architect on the project.