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New restaurant to open on Miller Lane after $850,000 renovation
BUTLER TWP., Montgomery County — A new El Toro Bar and Grill is scheduled to open later this summer following an $850,000 expansion and renovation of the former Don Pablo’s at 6770 Miller Lane, according to Abdul Alnobani, a spokesman for the Munoz family that owns the Dayton-based chain of Mexican restaurants.
The new El Toro will seat 350 indoors and on a new second-floor patio, and the restaurant will employ about 35 people, said Alnobani, who is CEO of Izis Holding Co. of Springfield and has been general contractor for El Toro’s restaurants since 2003. The Miller Lane location will be the 10th restaurant in the Dayton-based chain, which has locations in Huber Heights, Riverside, Vandalia, Beavercreek, Miami Twp., Bellbrook and Springfield. It is scheduled to open perhaps in early August, Alnobani said.
The Miller Lane restaurant has been vacant since Don Pablo’s closed in January 2008.
The building has been gutted, and the addition of a mezzanine and balcony seating added 2,000 square feet to the building, Alnobani said.
El Toro’s owners were attracted by the concentration of motels and restaurants on and around Miller Lane, Alnobani said. “It’s a live gathering area,” he said.
Alex Kolodesh of Singer Properties, co-owner of the property, said El Toro has signed a long-term lease on the building.
El Toro’s owners are looking to expand outside the Dayton-Springfield area, using the new Miller Lane restaurant as a prototype, Alnobani said. The first El Toro opened in 2000.
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