FLINT, MI -- Flint’s new Hilton Hotel is bring more to downtown Flint than just a place to stay. The building also includes a new Italian American restaurant, café and seasonal rooftop bar.
A clock on Sauce Italian American Kitchen’s website is ticking down to its Monday, Nov. 2 opening date.
Hours for Sauce Italian American Kitchen are from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday though Thursday, 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, according to the restaurant website. The Federal Coffee House is open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
Sauce will also serve breakfast from open to 11 a.m. seven days a week, hotel officials said Friday, Nov. 30.
Limited seating capacity, extra sanitation and mask requirements are being implemented in order to keep patrons safe amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coming in the spring of 2021 is Simmer Rooftop Lounge, which is located on a the top of a five-story wing of the Hilton Garden Inn.
Sauce offers a range of food and craft beverage options for breakfast, lunch and dinner, said Dan Wright, the food and beverage general manager.
Dinner entrees range in price from a $15 pasta dish to $28 ribeye steak. Gourmet pizzas are also on the menu, along with an assortment of drink options, including signature cocktails.
“It’s not just the restaurant in the Hilton,” Wright said. “We knew we wanted to do Italian. Being in Flint, we wanted to make sure we have some American cuisine in the mix and to put a little soul in the Italian kitchen.”
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The menu, under the direction of Executive Chef Antwain Trimble, incorporates Michigan-made ingredients in its entrees and side dishes.
Trimble, a Flint native, lived in the city until 2000 when he decided to move to Pittsburgh to start his journey as a chef. He moved his family back to Flint in 2015 to be closer to his mom and siblings.
“Culture” is what Trimble says he’s bringing to his role at the restaurant.
“I know what Flint likes food wise," Trimble said. "I know what we’ve been eating for years and I want to infuse that with what we have here.”
Trimble is a graduate of the Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts in Pittsburgh. He has 18 years of experience in food service – eight years of which were in hotels. In the past, he has worked in fast food, fine dining, bars, catering, healthcare and as the executive chef of the Flint Institute of Arts.
The restaurant, bar and café are part of the opening of the new Hilton Hotel in Flint. This project transformed the former 1920s Genesee County Savings Bank, 110 West Kearsley St., which also once housed the Flint Office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and a real estate firm. Plans to redevelop the building began in 2017.
The ground floor of the new Hilton Hotel in Flint was once the grand banking hall, before it was converted into the 2,500 square foot restaurant. The original bank vault will be used as a private dining area, according to prior reporting.
Simmer Rooftop Lounge, is Flint’s “premiere open-air, seasonal rooftop bar at Hilton Garden Inn Flint Downtown with a focus on crafted cocktails and farm-to-table inspired bites,” according to the hotel.
Simmer’s limited menu will offer small plates, or “elegant dishes,” and a separate cocktail menu that features primarily summer drinks, Wright said. With space for a 115 people, about 90 percent of the seating will be outside. There is a small bar area inside. Simmer will also feature live entertainment at least twice a week.
The lounge will be accessible through the hotel lobby and an elevator ride to the sixth floor. The name is derived from Sauce, the first-floor restaurant, as in to allow the sauce to simmer, Wright said.
“Everyone is excited about Simmer,” Wright said. “We didn’t want to call it a bar. The thinking was that it should be a chill place. A lounge.”
The restaurant believes in tradition and making things “the old way with pastas cut by hand and savory sauces simmering all day over a low flame," the restaurant website states.
The inspiration for Sauce comes from our experiences with family, friends and farm restaurants all over Michigan, the description reads. Every dish is rooted from traditional Italian culinary recipes and infused with local flavors and ingredients.
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