After a couple of attempts by independent restaurateurs, a SoDo area restaurant space will become part of the Peach Valley Cafe chain. The space, in the Market at Southside, a shopping complex anchored by Publix at Michigan Street and Orange Avenue, had previously been a New England style chowder house and a sports bar. 

Peach Valley Cafe is a breakfast and lunch concept from Ormond Beach based Stonewood Holdings, which also owns Stonewood Grill & Tavern. This will be the company’s fifth Peach Valley location. Besides Ormond Beach and Gainesville, Peach Valley Cafes are in Orlando on Dr. Phillips Boulevard and in Heathrow. I visited the Heathrow location when it opened several years ago, and I liked it. Think of it along the lines of a First Watch.

Other food things happening at Southside — a name that absolutely no one who lives or shops in the area uses or would recognize — include an Applebee’s planned for the former Blockbuster Video location (is anyone as stunned by the fall of Blockbuster as I am?) and a WalMart Neighborhood Grocery for the former Albertson’s site (Albertson’s doesn’t surprise me — that place never felt clean to me).

A Domino’s Pizza place is also slated for the currently-being-renovated plaza, as is a tanning salon. So if you’re walking in the area and you smell burning fat, you won’t know if it’s from the ribs at Applebee’s or the tanning salon.

No time frame on any of this, so don’t start lining up for Peach Valley waffles any time soon.

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