New dining options coming to Clovis with city's first food hall

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- 8th and Pollasky volition soon beryllium known arsenic the spot wherever good eating meets accelerated casual with Clovis' archetypal nutrient hall: the Third Place Global Eatery.

Executive Chef Robert Vieira has 3 menus that volition each diagnostic a antithetic benignant of cuisine.

"You're going to get a tray," says laminitis Andrew Penn. "You're going to get cardboard boats, but the chill happening is you tin get a bison smash burger, you tin get a Peruvian empanada."

We got a sneak peek astatine immoderate of the paper items, including the bulgogi beef wonton tacos, Peruvian chicharon sandwich and a classical fried chickenhearted sandwich.

Locally sourced isn't constricted to the ingredients.

"All these tables are consecutive from Shaver Lake," Penn said. "After the fire, determination was a batch of lumber that we did not privation to spell to waste."

Seating ranges from communal tables to barroom stools.

"If you're present for a date, you tin beryllium successful the courtyard -- softer lighting, bully drawstring lights going everywhere," Penn said.

Space tin beryllium sectioned disconnected for backstage events oregon ticketed paper tastings.

A multicultural beverage barroom volition connection artisanal teas and lattes.

"Taking ingredients from antithetic cultures and making coffees we haven't truly seen before, particularly successful the java and boba side," Penn said.

Or you tin measurement extracurricular and drawback beer, vino oregon seltzer from the courtyard bar.

The affluent flavors coming from the room and bars lucifer the building's affluent history.

The eatery is located successful the Franco Family Building -- which was erstwhile Clovis' oldest Mexican restaurant, opened by Seferina Franco.

"She had a immense family, she was capable to enactment each of her kids into acquisition and unfastened a edifice arsenic a migrant fieldworker, truthful it's a testament to the American imagination and besides the Clovis mode of life," Penn said.

Penn says alternatively than demolish the building, they wanted to sphere the assemblage staple for the adjacent generation.

This is each conscionable a preview of an adjacent bigger project.

Shortly aft this, Penn says the program is to physique a 30,000-square-foot nutrient hall.

"You tin commencement arsenic a booth, commencement arsenic a stall and past you tin postgraduate to good dining," Penn said.

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