Business Beat: Fox takes over hotel eatery, plans new menu

Regional restaurateur Matt Fox of Fox Smokehouse BBQ has major designs for the eatery at the Boulder Dam Hotel.

“We’re heading to continue to keep breakfast and lunch seven times a week,” he mentioned. “That has a big subsequent and we want to hold it. Thursdays through Sundays … we will transform it into a steakhouse and seafood restaurant.”

Not too long ago, the Boulder Town Museum Association announced the longtime cafe operator experienced resolved to close its company and they were being on the lookout for a new tenant.

“It’s a little something that Boulder Town does not have,” said Fox of his plans. “We never have a steakhouse that serves prime steaks or primary cuts like a porterhouse.”

He is also performing on various dishes, such as the hanging tomahawk.

Fox reported it will be a 28-ounce tomahawk steak that will be hanging when it’s introduced to a table. The server will then cover it in beef tallow and torch it. That tallow will soften and drip onto seasoned potatoes beneath the steak. The server will then choose the steak down, slice it and major it with more beef tallow.

The restaurant will also provide cocktails.

Fox said he wants the restaurant to be “something upscale but not also upscale.”

The prehealth inspection is scheduled for today, April 28, and right after that Fox can get started performing on the restaurant. He stated he is really hunting forward to seeing “the joy on everyone’s faces” when it opens.

“I’ve been hearing from a large amount of persons that we require a pleasant steak position,” he reported. “Everyone would seem really psyched about the challenge.”

He mentioned he is hoping to open up the new restaurant in June or July.

Fox now operates Fox Smokehouse BBQ with his dad, Dan Fox.

New groomer will come to city

The Doggie Stylist in Boulder Town has a new proprietor.

“I’m quite passionate about what I do, doing the job with animals … I won’t do just about anything the animals aren’t at ease with,” mentioned Bree Ogbonna, who moved to the spot at the conclusion of March and took around the doggy grooming company.

Ogbonna, who is initially from New York, became a doggy groomer four decades ago. She reported she was laid off from her career for the duration of COVID-19 and begun presenting her solutions out of her house.

“I created up a clientele and determined to open up a store,” she reported.

At that time, Ogbonna and her husband lived in Texas. She said she was maintaining an eye on postings about pet dog grooming firms that had been for sale all through the nation. She had also visited Boulder City and reported she saw there weren’t a great deal of doggy shops in town.

“This one was a single of three for sale,” she stated. “Janette (Housley) was the first a single to get back again to me.”

Ogbonna flew to Boulder Town, saw the business enterprise, acquired it and then moved to the place completely with her husband.

“Everyone here has been so amazing, so type,” she said.

The Doggie Stylist, 1402 Boulder City Parkway, Suite B, is open up by appointment only from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Ogbonna said she only functions with 1 animal at a time and the proprietors are more than welcome to stay whilst she operates with their pet.

She takes advantage of natural and organic and organic items for grooming and cleans and sanitizes among consumers.

Ogbonna accomplished grooming school in 2018 and is presently an American Kennel Club Secure (protection, assurance, fundamentals, schooling) certified groomer.

Valley Oaks acquires Smith’s observe

Valley Oaks Health care Group a short while ago obtained Boulder Primary Care following Dr. Larry Smith retired last month and moved to Florida.

Smith, a chiropractor and nurse practitioner, has been working towards drugs in the community for lots of many years. Furthermore, he was a member of the Rotary Club of Boulder Town and board member for the Mates of the Boulder Town Law enforcement Office.

Individual care at Boulder Key Treatment will be supplied by Chad Bullock, an advanced apply registered nurse, who has been seeing clients all of April, and Jose Moran, a family members nurse practitioner, who will start Could 1.

“Patient wellness is our priority, which is why our target is on proactive professional medical care and establishing a prolonged-expression romance with each and every individual,” in accordance to a push launch from the medical group. “We use the most current engineering to offer thorough health-related services guaranteeing you have the vital assets at Valley Oaks among our principal and specialty clinics. Our Boulder Town clinic focuses on grownup relatives drugs for Medicare sufferers.”

Boulder Principal Care is at 1252 Wyoming St. It is open up from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday by means of Thursday.

Fisher Place Pen honors dispatchers

Fisher House Pen Co. not long ago debuted its new gold line pen in guidance of 911 dispatchers.

The pen joins the company’s to start with responder collection, a selection of matte black Cap-O-Matic pens emblazoned with a diverse color line for each and every occupation: white for EMS employees inexperienced for forest company and conservation personnel orange for lookup and rescue staff purple for firefighters and blue for legislation enforcement officers.

A portion of revenue from the gold line pen will reward the Initial Responders Children’s Foundation, a nonprofit business that delivers school scholarships and economical grants to the kids of 1st responders who have been killed or wounded in the line of obligation.

“We owe a financial debt of gratitude to the initially responder men and women of all ages on the entrance strains who assist to continue to keep our nation secure,” mentioned Matt Fisher, vice president. “Our initial responder sequence signifies our endeavours to contribute to our nation’s brave first responders who sacrifice so substantially.”

Fisher Place Pen Co. is at 711 Yucca St. It is open up from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays.

Tattoo parlor moves downtown

Boulder Metropolis company Ragtown Tattoo has relocated to 1244 Wyoming St.

“All in all we preferred to get again downtown,” mentioned Chris Unger, owner. “I needed to be on the wine walks. Staying downtown in the historic district certainly has a different vibe.”

Ragtown had been situated on Boulder Metropolis Parkway close to the edge of city.

Unger explained he had been casually looking all-around for a new place for quite a few months and then uncovered the spot a single morning when he and his household have been driving around.

The store is open up from 12-5 p.m. seven times a week excluding holiday seasons. To make an appointment, call 702-635-7282.

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