Sylva’s Spring Street Cafe closes
Spring Street Cafe owner Lisa Agee said times had become too lean to continue operation, and closed her doors.
Spring St. Cafe and City Lights Bookstore
Agee bought the restaurant three years ago from founder Faye Holliday. Holliday opened in 2000 in a space previously occupied by City Lights Cafe, beneath City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. Holliday had been an employee of City Lights Cafe owners Joyce and Allen Moore for most of the nineties, and had learned her trade in part under Hector Diaz, founder of two famous Asheville restaurants, “Zambra” and “Salsas”.
Holliday’s idiosyncratic culinary flair and long-term staff members were a staple of the downtown Sylva scene through the early 2000’s, and during that time the Cafe’s Sunday brunches and Tuesday night old time music jams were central to the routines of many area residents.
One of Holliday’s employees, Jen Pearson, went on to open Guadalupe Cafe, on Main St., in 2005.
Agee, a baker, moved from Virginia and bought the restaurant in 2006.
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What a shame. Looks like more dinners at LuLu’s from now on…where they’ve had the same menu for too long, close too early and vacuum under your table to run you out of the place.
I was in fact very sad to see Spring St. Go. It used to be a major part of my life.
As for Dinner, I highly recommend Guadalupe Cafe next door to Lulu’s. As Bill notes above, it is owned by a former staff member of Lulu’s, Jen Pearson. I am striving to make Sunday Brunch something special at my restaurant, called Underground Cafe. It is under Lulu’s. We are open for lunch every day. I hope you will give us a try.
John
That’s terrible–major blow to Sylva and to my Sunday morning schedule.
Who else serves a good brunch?
Just ate there two Sundays ago, and never knew it would be the last time.
Spring Street had its own special atmosphere and was a dining delight. Their Sunday Brunch was the best! What a great loss for Sylva! I wonder if they will still be catering their cakes or other specialties…