This Alabama restaurant tandem raises a glass to culinary dreams coming true

Kristian Denis created her own domain, and she has downtown Huntsville covered. This restaurant owner grew a tiny wine shop (400 square feet in a former lumberyard switching house building) into two different dining destinations. The complementary restaurant concepts, just a stone’s throw from each other near the Madison County Courthouse, offer French-inspired fine dining; craft cocktails; simple, delicious sandwiches and bistro fare; gourmet grab-and-go; breakfast; and wine. Lots of wine. Wine, in fact, was the starting point of all this. “I thought, ‘I’m going to open a little wine bar, and people are going to come in and have a cheese board and have some charcuterie,’” Denis says of the businesses she owns with her husband. She grew up in Germany where her father was an officer in the U.S. Army. Her parents, she says, loved good food and wine so they took her and her sister to multiple European countries – each with unique food traditions and cuisines – in search of it. “There were always these fantastic little neighborhood restaurants,” she says. “I wanted something that felt like that. And I didn’t think that we had anything like that here. So, I created it.” Domaine South and…
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