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15 Cliff Street. Ten years ago it was just an address, four walls and a dream, before it became the first home of our Hole In The Wall restaurants and, without any of us quite realizing it at the time, the start of everything Parched Hospitality Group has become.
The quick coffee catchups that turned into a long brunch. The Wednesday brunches that turned into a few too many mid week espresso martinis. The FiDi regulars who became dear friends, and the friends who became family. You could set your watch by some of them, same seat, same order, week after week for years.
This space taught us something about the kind of all day destination we could build, and it planted the seed that inspired our current iteration of Hole In The Wall: a brunch through dinner offering our FiDi home never had the room to be. None of that stopped the Aussie Day parties that spilled out the door, the 2 hour waits for brunch, the over zealous catering orders, the attempts at a speakeasy style Asian Fusion pop up called Sugar Momma (IYKYK), or us smashing service even with a construction site parked outside our window for what felt like forever, because when you love a place, it finds a way to work.
And through it all, the people. Servers and cooks, baristas and dishwashers, the ones who opened at dawn and the ones who locked up long after last call. So many walked through that door as kids figuring it out and have walked back in years later having built careers and families. A whole lot of the original team are still with our Hospitality Group in one form or another, and will carry the memories and lessons learnt in this little room for the rest of their careers.
Ten years is a long time to hold onto one small room, and if we’re honest, we probably outgrew this one about 9 years ago. That’s not a sad thing, it’s what happens when something works and clicks with a community. So before we close the Cliff st doors and relocate, we want to see you one more time. Come by any time from today - Tuesday, we’ll be pouring the coffees and shaking the espresso martinis right up until last service at 15 Cliff St in FiDi. This isn’t goodbye, it’s a see you soon, at our new home, details coming soon
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We are closed while we re-locate to a new home
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We are closed while we re-locate to a new home