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BY ERIKA ENGLE

Friday, August 31, 2001



Restaurant Row loses and gains

Jameson's Seafood Grill at Restaurant Row did not open for business yesterday, and it won't be back, after struggling since its March opening.

"We're bringing in two guys that have a restaurant in Lahaina," partner Al Sieverts said. He had sampled their fare and called it "fabulous." The two guys are Two Davids LLC partners David Miles and David Lucarelli, owners and operators of Hop Tomato Italian Bistro & Brewery on Front Street in Lahaina. That's hop, as in beer, and tomato as in, well, you know.

"The price points are reasonable and the food is enough to make your eyes roll and your tummy purr -- it did it to me," Sieverts said. The Davids will operate the new eatery, to be called Lucarelli's.

Immediate plans don't include a microbrewery but Sieverts said they will install a bar, remodel the dining area and "fire up the wood-burning pizza oven." Diners will to be able to watch "the pizza guy making pizzas," he said.

Sieverts said the company plans to "reabsorb" the three full-time and five part-time employees, but there will be a new chef, he said. It was unclear whether the chef would be Lucarelli, who is also chef at Hop Tomato.

Al and Jane Sieverts, Alan Beall and Ed Greene, corporately known as The Row Cafe LLC, also own Danny's Plate Lunch and The Row bar. The bar and Danny's, which shares a kitchen with the now-former Jameson's, will stay open. However, pupu service at the bar is suspended until Lucarelli's opens.

Under new ownership

The Chicago-based, publicly traded Chart House Enterprises Inc. has sold its last Hawaii location, in Kona. Pacific Ocean Restaurants of California Inc. bought the restaurant and the right to use the name for another year, however. Terms were not disclosed.

CEO Thomas J. Walters said in a statement, "The sale of the Kona Chart House completes the company's plan announced in January 2000 to dispose of 11 lower-volume restaurants, including four in Hawaii."

A subsequent company statement announcing the restaurant chain's 40th anniversary said Chart House was founded by "Hawaiian surf legend Joey Cabell and former U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team frogman Buzzy Bent."





Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin.
Call 529-4302, fax 529-4750 or write to Erika Engle,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 500 Ala Moana Blvd., No. 7-210,
Honolulu, HI 96813. She can also be reached
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