Steve Cahalan

Business Columnist at La Crosse Tribune

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The Parlour Barber opens downtown La Crosse - Steve Cahalan

1 week ago | lacrossetribune.com | Steve Cahalan

Matt Maus-Gillespie opened The Parlour Barber on April 1 in its new location at 113 Fifth Ave. S., across from Anytime Fitness in downtown La Crosse. It’s in the former location of The Cut Barbershop and Salon, which owner Laura Markham moved recently to 2316 State Road. Maus-Gillespie previously rented a space at a hair salon on Main Street. This is the first time he’s had his own location. “It’s a small hair community,” he said.
Walsh Golf Center sold; City Square getting a new cafe - Steve Cahalan

1 week ago | lacrossetribune.com | Steve Cahalan

I’ve got news this week about a new owner for the Walsh Golf Center, a new cafe coming to the City Square building in downtown La Crosse, Cordell’s Automotive Service & Tire adding a seventh location, and a local food truck shutting down. Nearly 80 years after the business began, Tristan Fink purchased Walsh Golf Center at 4203 County Hwy. B in La Crosse from David Swift on March 26.
Banh Mi Cafe, serving Vietnamese cuisine, to open downtown

2 weeks ago | lacrossetribune.com | Steve Cahalan

Remodeling is under way for the new Banh Mi Cafe, which Keng Lor expects to open in late May on the first floor of the City Square building at 444 Main St. in downtown La Crosse. “It will be mostly Vietnamese” cuisine, Lor told me this week. The menu will include such things as sandwiches (most will be served hot), bowls, barbecue ribs, salads and spring rolls. The cafe will have a variety of banh mi sandwiches, Thai coffee, boba tea and smoothies.
Batter & Brew food truck in La Crosse closes

2 weeks ago | lacrossetribune.com | Steve Cahalan

The Batter & Brew food truck in La Crosse has shut down. I featured the food truck’s debut in a column last July, when it began serving up crepes, mini pancakes and a variety of beverages. Earlier this week, I noticed a March 31 post on its Facebook page that says “It’s bittersweet to share that we’re closing the doors (or rather, the window) of Batter & Brew.
Pizza business opens in Viroqua, La Crosse barbershop moves

2 weeks ago | lacrossetribune.com | Steve Cahalan

There’s news this week about a new pizza business in Viroqua, the relocation of a barbershop/hair salon in La Crosse and the closing of a coffee drive-thru in Onalaska. Owner Ben Dollhausen and his son, operations manager Scout Dollhausen, will open their new Mia Sophia Pizza trailer business with a grand opening celebration from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 11, at its primary location at 741 S. Main St. on the south side of Viroqua.
Laura Markham relocates The Cut Barbershop and Salon

3 weeks ago | lacrossetribune.com | Steve Cahalan

Laura Markham opened The Cut Barbershop and Salon on Tuesday at is new location in Suite 6 at 2316 State Road, in a brick building across from Java Vino. She moved her business there from 113 Fifth Ave. S. in downtown La Crosse, where it had been since February 2023. She started the salon in 2017 at 3001 State Road. “I have a bigger space here, and a parking lot,” Markham said of her move to the new location. The parking lot is behind the building.
New Asian restaurant opens in downtown La Crosse — Steve Cahalan

3 weeks ago | lacrossetribune.com | Steve Cahalan

I’ve got news this week about the new Tokyo Fusion restaurant in the former Sushi Pirate location in downtown La Crosse, a new owner for Rosie’s Cafe, the Mayo Clinic store moving this fall from the old hospital building to part of a former Shopko store, the Visionworks store in Valley View Mall closing and High Society opening in downtown La Crosse after leaving the mall.
Rosie's Cafe under new ownership in La Crosse - Steve Cahalan

4 weeks ago | lacrossetribune.com | Steve Cahalan

As of Tuesday, August Kerns will be the new owner of Rosie’s Cafe at 2225 S. 16th St. He will be the third generation of his family to own the business, which his grandmother, Rosie Perez, started. Kerns, 19, is the head cook and is taking over the business from his mother, Teresa Kerns, who put the business and its building up for sale last fall so she can retire. His grandmother – Rosie – still owns the building.
New venue opens, Hmong’s Golden Egg Rolls to move to Onalaska - Steve Cahalan

1 month ago | lacrossetribune.com | Steve Cahalan

There’s news this week about a new event venue near Houston, Minn., plans to move Hmong’s Golden Egg Rolls restaurant from La Crosse to downtown Onalaska, the closing of the Latino Bar and Grill in La Crosse, and next week’s opening of a new Dollar Tree store in Onalaska. Ken Johnston Jr. and Tara Klinski have started their new Creekside Events venue at 17365 County Road 26, rural Houston.
Hmong's Golden Egg Rolls to relocate to downtown Onalask

1 month ago | lacrossetribune.com | Steve Cahalan

Look for the Hmong’s Golden Egg Rolls restaurant to move to downtown Onalaska next winter. It’s been operating in leased space in The Hive apartment and commercial complex at 901 State St. in La Crosse since May 2015. The Onalaska Plan Commission will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. Tuesday on the restaurant owners’ plan for redeveloping the former Brilliant Bodywork MedSpa building at 314 Main St. The Onalaska Common Council is expected to consider the plan on April 8.