Popular Monroe food truck owner to take foot off gas to open Brodheadsville restaurant | Poconos and Coal Region

BRODHEADSVILLE, Pa. – A woman who turned her appreciate for cooking into a well known foods truck company suggests she’ll quickly open a brick-and-mortar restaurant that includes her most well known dishes.

Margaret LaFiura claimed she designs to open Sauce cafe in a previous Rita’s Italian Ice at 109 Marshal Lane, just off Route 209 throughout from the Tractor Provide retail outlet.

For the previous 8 yrs, LaFiura has operated LaFiura’s Rice About the Earth food stuff truck, which offered a wide wide range of rice bowls as effectively as burgers, tacos and empanadas.

It has been common in Monroe County at street fairs, wineries, breweries and gatherings at Shawnee ski place and downtown Stroudsburg.

But “I assume we acquired a minor worn out – my kid’s acquiring more mature, and we received a tiny exhausted of breaking down and environment up,” Lafiura reported.

“And it is usually been a aspiration of mine to have a cafe – I indicate, just to be settled in a restaurant and serving a neighborhood is my desire occur genuine. So we identified a wonderful place, and we pushed forward.”

After about 4 months of setting up and get the job done, the stationary restaurant previous week obtained permits needed to open up, LaFiura claimed. Most of the renovations are finished – plumbing function continues to be, she mentioned – and “I’m hoping, by the grace of God, to be open in 3 months.”

Sauce will seat about 20 inside, with extra tables with umbrellas exterior.

It will function LaFiuri’s signature paella – flavored rice cooked with meats, seafood and veggies – as perfectly as other rice dishes and traditional Italian fare.

And, as the title signifies, sauces.

LaFiura explained she expects a person of the signature dishes to be a “flight,” or assortment, of sauces – much as people today now get flights of beer or wine.

“Rice bowls seem to be pretty well known,” she said. “I make them for holiday seasons, I give them out.

“But the sauces that go alongside with them, like the lemon garlic sauce, the pesto sauce and the chipotle sauces, individuals appreciate to dip men and women love sauces. So I stated, ‘Let’s do a bunch of dipping foods that we can provide people today to sit around with their households, provide your individual wine, provide your personal beer, sit down and be at ease, order some dipping appetizers and a bunch of sauces.

“So I reported, ‘Let’s do a flight of sauce – why not?’ So we are commencing on supplying a flight of sauces with a bucket of hand-slash fries, onion rings with our arancini.”

The cafe also will serve Pizza Fritta (fried pizza), flatbreads, and lunch burgers, sandwiches and salads. And even breakfasts on weekends.

She claimed she uncovered the previous Rita’s web site “by likelihood – by passing by simply because it’s in our community, and I noticed a ‘for lease’ signal on it and it just felt appropriate to us and we took gain of it.” She will lease the web site.

LaFiura is originally from New York, in which she had a catering business enterprise named Intimate Occasions.

When the loved ones moved to Pennsylvania, she explained, they and a bunch of friends started a evening meal club, with families every single month executing “these definitely large gatherings, themed.”

“And we selected Spain one particular yr,” she reported. “And we made the decision to make paella the extremely traditional way. So we imported some pans from Spain – big, 3-foot-diameter kinds – and we experienced this great paella occasion on an open up fire. It was just an amazing practical experience.

“So we hung the pan up in the garage, and we continue to keep passing it, and I’m, like, ‘There’s bought to be some way I could capitalize on this pan.’ So I mentioned, ‘Let’s give it a shot. Let’s go to a winery. Let’s see if men and women really want this stuff.’ ”

She mentioned patrons at the winery beloved the paella. “People had been lining up,” she explained. “So we bought excited and we begun a food truck known as Rice All-around the World.”

LaFiura explained she chose the identify Sauces mainly because, “We make a good deal of sauces. I specialize in my sauces. Individuals inquire me for my sauces all the time.

“I’ve been cooking for our church for the past 13 several years. I cook for all the huge situations and I cook for 50, 150 people today at a time. And I make sauces.

“I imagine occasionally to make a fantastic foodstuff great, often it requires a good sauce. So I determined that I was likely to specialize in all these sauces and, confident plenty of, individuals like them. And so I reported, ‘You know what? I’m heading to name it Sauce.’”

Sauce is expected to be open up 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays.