Creating a High-Performance Kitchen Inside a 1940s Building

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Dean Robb and Jim Keet set out to open a new restaurant in Birmingham, Ala., back in 2017. The new partners, who met while working at Taziki’s Mediterranean Café, looked at 25 locations before finding the right spot.

“One day, we saw an old building that was absolutely charming and perfect for our needs,” Robb says. He contacted the landlord, Cathy Sloss Jones, who immediately met with the duo. “Within an hour of meeting with Cathy, we knew this would be the perfect location.”

The building, constructed in 1948 and previously the headquarters of Birmingham Blueprint Company, is located off 3rd Avenue South. The owners weaved the location into the restaurant’s name: Blueprint on 3rd. The American brasserie-style restaurant sits near The Market at Pepper Place, one of the largest farmers markets in the state.

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