La Bodega is considered one of Bishop Arts’ latest companies.
“I all the time knew I needed it to be small,” proprietor Skye McDaniel mentioned. “I all the time knew I needed it to be in Oak Cliff as a result of I grew up right here.”
The intense, colourful house is the belief of McDaniel’s decadelong dream to open her personal enterprise. The easy menu contains natural rotisserie hen, salads and sandwiches.
“I need the menu to be scrumptious,” McDaniel mentioned. “It is meals for everybody and it is wholesome and good.”
For McDaniel, it took one thing unhealthy to make the leap to good.
“2020 was only a actually scary 12 months for all of us,” McDaniel mentioned. “How must you come out on the opposite facet of this? Like, you should not be the identical individual.”
McDaniel was working at a Deep Ellum espresso store when the pandemic hit and she or he was with no job. She had slightly success day buying and selling, which reframed her excited about danger and reward.
“So for me, that house is what pushed me to do that as a result of I had time to judge how essential it was, whether or not or not I ought to take a danger,” McDaniel mentioned she began considering throughout her pandemic downtime. “Like a do-over. If I needed to return in, what would it not appear like? And naturally, it might appear like working for myself.”
McDaniel took some classes from the pandemic. Her enterprise is grab-and-go to restrict pandemic danger of being closed if there was one other shutdown.
La Bodega’s enterprise hours are unconventional, too; closed Friday and Saturday.
“They’re funky, yeah,” McDaniel mentioned. “As a result of that is my neighborhood and my neighborhood. I did not make it for weekenders.”
McDaniel hopes her model of wholesome consolation meals makes these neighbors/prospects really feel what was put into it.
“I need them to note how a lot love and care has been put into it,” McDaniel mentioned.
La Bodega is positioned at 208 West eighth Road in Dallas.
