First of 3 new food, beverage options opens at Cherapa Place

One restaurant is open, and more are on the way at Cherapa Place in downtown Sioux Falls.

Fine-dining restaurant HK opened last week after relocating to The Dakota Flats building at Cherapa Place from the Harvester Building at 196 E. Sixth St.

The name is a nod to the original: Harvester Kitchen by Bryan, owned by Bryan Moscatello.

“As a whole, the biggest change in the experience is having a nice, intimate seating area,” he said.

There’s space for about 20 to dine in the main area and a dozen in a private dining space.

The entry includes seating for six because the concept is “we want to take time with each guest and have that initial experience be an unwinding one,” Moscatello said.

“The wine cellar is on either side, and with big floor-to-ceiling windows, it’s really pretty here at Cherapa. So you can decompress and sit down and have the day roll away.”

The restaurant is opening with a nine-course “treat yourself” menu along with a winter feature menu.

To view the menus, click here.

This menus likely will be in place until sometime in March, Moscatello said.

Reservations are recommended.

“We will do walk-ins if we have it available, but … our goal is to keep it around 20 every night. Everybody would be happy with that,” he said.

HK is open Thursday through Sunday with the first reservation at 5:15 p.m. and the last one at 8:30 p.m.

Next to open will be lunch service at Nunzio’s Food Hall, which hopes to open sometime in the coming week. The menu to begin will be an abbreviated one with a handful of pizzas, a few salads, cannoli, cream puffs and the restaurant’s entry in the Downtown Burger Battle. The Stromboli Burger will feature a prime beef patty with pepperoni and mozzarella inside a baked crust with a choice of arrabbiata, marinara or garlic basil bechamel for dipping, served with a Caesar salad.

“We’ll incorporate another five or six sandwiches into the menu,” Moscatello said, including Pierre’s Jambon Beurre ham sandwiches. His vision still is to create a food hall-style space within Nunzio’s, eventually adding other small concepts.

Lunch hours will be 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Dinner service will follow at a date to be determined.

First, though, BlackFork Farms will open its retail space and distillery tasting room within the same building at Cherapa Place. Moscatello is managing the location in partnership with BlackFork, which is near Brandt in eastern South Dakota.

It will allow all the food and beverage concepts to operate with the same liquor license serving BlackFork spirits and provide a place for guests to spend time before or after a meal, along with its own small-bites menu.

“There’s so many different experiences guests could have,” Moscatello said. “It will be really cool and keep people experiencing new things.”

The goal is still to have everything open by February, but it might be later depending on hiring. To apply, visit here.

“We’ve been getting good movement on that — we’re just not there yet,” he said. “We’ll double our staff from HK, but it’s still very tight-knit, and we’re very team-oriented. Everybody will do many things for each operation.”

Guests who got an early look at the space “were really blown away,” Moscatello added. “They really love it.”

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