Rosie’s Cafe will begin its second life before Christmas, owner Tom “Tiger” Hinrichs has announced.
Hinrichs and his working partner, Barry Selland, will reopen the neighborhood restaurant at 7 a.m. Dec. 23, closing at 2 p.m. It will be closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and serve meals again on Dec. 26.
They are leasing the property at 2200 W. Madison St., where Rosie Warner opened the original Rosie’s Cafe in 1984. Warner’s daughter Beckie Mettler took over almost 25 years ago while Warner continued to cook on a part-time basis.
Mettler now operates Rosie’s Farmhouse Cafe in Chester. She closed the Rosie’s in Sioux Falls in May…