The Genessee Royale Bistro is open — and ready to make your Saturday breakfast
| Homemade soups are also important at the new Genessee Royale |
The Genessee Royale Bistro has been open just shy of a week in the West Bottoms. Young restaurateur Todd Schulte, proprietor of Happy Gillis Cafe & Hangout, in Columbus Park, has put his new concept in a former service station and towing yard at 1531 Genessee Street.
Schulte’s wife, designer Tracy Zinn, has given the breakfast-and-lunch restaurant a soothing European sensibility: lace curtains, bistro tables, a copper-topped bar. What’s now a sunny new place to eat was a mess when the building’s owner, West Bottoms developer Bill Haw, encouraged Schulte to put a restaurant here.
