It was a good run and a valiant effort but after almost two years in the renovated 1930s-vintage Ruth Jones Cottage in downtown Boynton Beach, Chrissy Benoit is closing her charming little (and I do mean little) Little House.
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This Saturday will be the last day, the result, Benoit says, of a long-touted downtown development project that has made little progress in upgrading the depressed area and of “so slow” summers that halved the restaurant’s business for five to six months of the year. “It’s tough to keep losing everything you make every summer,” she says.
The good news is that Benoit, who went around the country opening restaurants for Wolfgang Puck and gained national recognition when her Havana Hideout in Lake Worth was featured in Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-In’s and Dives,” will be landing on her feet. Specifically in Tampa, where she’ll be developing farm-to-table eateries for SoHo Hospitality Management, which in the coming months will be opening several restaurants of Florida’s West Coast.
I’ll miss her food and her gracious hospitality, which means I’ll just have to make it over to Tampa sooner rather than later.
