Franklin Fine Wine & Café to Open on Monday
“Soft opening” on tap to work out any problems for later grand opening.
Downtown Royal Oak has a new business neighbor – Franklin Fine Wine & Café. Manager Mike Larranaga has been busy getting the inventory and recipes together for the store. Steve Soka owns the store along with two others in the metro Detroit area. “It’s a little bit of everything – it’s a fine wine shop by definition – but in the planning stage we just kept getting bigger,” Larranaga said. “There’s a full wine cellar, a cigar humidor, a full-blown kitchen with all prepared foods – we’ve got a chef on the property. It’s fun for me because I get to pair food and wine all day long.” Larranaga, a southern California native (La Jolla, a suburb of San Diego) will have $1.5 million worth of inventory on hand in the 7,500-square foot store when he …
Sherry Lane
11:32 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013
My husband & I thought we would try this place out tonight, we parked on the side of the building, off the street got out of the car proceeded to the side door, when we seen that there wasn't a menu on the door, most eateries in Royal Oak have there menu's posted on a door or window, we started to walk to the front window to see if there was a menu there, as we started to walk a guy came out and … more ›