Several Wichita entrepreneurs have talked about the concept of “food halls” — where several food vendors operate out of one space. A prime example in the region is Mother Road Market in Tulsa, which boasts 25 different restaurant and retail vendors operating out of a converted warehouse.
So far in Wichita, though, only one — Plentibloom in the Ruffin Building downtown — has materialized, and it lasted for just six months.
But doesn’t mean Wichita is out of the food hall running. Two others are still in the works and should be up and running next year. Here’s the latest:
CLOSED — Plentibloom, 100 N. Broadway: A year ago, Jumbo’s Beef & Brew owner Kayson Chong took over the big cafe area on the walkway level of the Ruffin Building at Douglas and Broadway and turned it into a mini food hall. His concept: Get local restaurants to provide some of their best-selling dishes and offer them up each day to people who worked in the building as well as to outsiders who wanted to stop in…