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Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
The Brick off ers unique fare to Wallowa
BIZZ
BUZZ
By Bill Bradshaw
New this year,
eatery caters
to later crowd
WALLOWA — A local
couple has taken over the
former Main Street Grill and
revamped and reopened the
place, dubbing it The Brick
Restaurant.
Cody and Tish Green
opened The Brick in April.
The name from the new
establishment comes more
from its structure than any-
thing, Tish said.
“It actually wasn’t any-
thing spectacular,” she said.
“We were having a hard time
landing on a name and we
looked around one day and
because the building’s all
brick, it became The Brick.”
In fact, she relishes the
local and family history
in the building. On one of
the walls she keeps photo-
graphs of the building from
the 1880s and 1902 of the
Hotel McCrae, owned and
operated by her step-grand-
mother’s family. She said the
building was sold in 1902,
thus the latter photo.
“And now we have it,”
she said.
The Greens are green
Neither Cody nor Tish
has ever run a restaurant or
bar before and they’re learn-
ing as they go, they said.
“We’re green at it,” Tish
said. “I worked as a prop-
erty manager for Chris-
man (Development) for the
past fi ve years while I lived
here. When Wiley (Frye)
decided to sell this place …
we just got a wild hair and
thought we’d try and do it.
I’ve always loved cooking at
home and now we’re serving
other people.”
Cody, on the other hand,
has more experience with
cattle. He operates his grand-
father’s 1,000-acre ranch
where he raises about 100
head of Hereford-Angus
cross.
“I don’t know anything
about restaurants,” he said.
“I’m mainly doing it to help
Tish.”
He’s the main bartender,
but also handles the front
end of the restaurant while
Tish cooks.
“He was saying (a few
days previously) that how his
life has changed opening this
place because he used to work
solely with cows and didn’t
have to work with many peo-
ple,” Tish said. “Now he’s
in this profession where he’s
(working with people) all
day, every day, so it’s been a
huge change for him.”
Does he prefer people or
cattle?
“A little bit of both,”
Cody laughs.
He grew up in the Wal-
lowa area, while Tish is from
Pendleton and has only lived
here about six years. But
she’s no stranger to the area.
“I spent a lot of summers
here because my grandpar-
ents were here,” she said.
“We spent all our lives com-
ing to Wallowa, but as far as
actually moving here, that
was in 2015.”
THE BRICK
RESTAURANT
Who: Cody and Tish
Green
Where: 214 E. 1st St.,
Wallowa
Phone: 541-886-2555
Email: tish.green@aol.
com
Online: Facebook page
Hours: 3-10 p.m.
Wednesday through
Saturday; 8 a.m.-noon
Sunday
Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
Tish and Cody Green prepare to open for the day on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, at their business,
The Brick Restaurant, in Wallowa.
Greens, they’re still working
out bumps in the road.
“We’re still trying to fi g-
ure out ‘kinks’ before we
settle into a menu and what
works for us, especially as
we move toward a fall and
winter menu,” Tish said.
“The hours, we’ve had to
change a little bit — we even
had to close the past couple
of weeks because we had to
stay in quarantine because
we were exposed to COVID,
and we absolutely had no
income the past two weeks,
so that was another kink we
had to work out.”
Other delays were caused
by a wait to get liability
insurance to cover the hard
liquor in the bar.
“It was previously just
beer and wine,” Tish said.
“But fi guring our hours and
what works for us — we
open at 3 p.m. and it usually
picks up about 5 p.m.”
Working out ‘kinks’
Finding their niche
Being that the restau-
rant business is new to the
Adding one more eat-
ery to a small town may
Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
Tish Green, co-owner of The Brick Restaurant in Wallowa, gets
the kitchen ready to open Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. She and
husband, Cody, operate their new venture.
seem like too much, but the
Greens have found their
niche. With others off ering
breakfast and lunch, they
decided to focus on din-
ner and staying open later.
That’s evident in both their
hours and their menu.
“Our option was to pick a
lane,” Tish said, adding that
nearby restaurants off er ear-
lier meals, so they planned to
concentrate on fare for later
in the day and evening.
“Our intent was to not
do what everyone else was
doing, not to off er the same
kind of thing,” she said.
“Originally, we wanted to
be the place that stayed open
later.”
The intent is not to com-
pete with nearby restaurants.
“There’s no need for that
much competition in a tiny
community like this,” she
said. “Rather than making it
about competition, it’s more
about giving more opportuni-
ties to the folks who are here.
That’s the route we wanted
to go and we’ll stick with for
& Skylight
Gallery
awhile. We like change.”
That’ll be evident as the
seasons change. Right now,
the menu is “focused more
on dinners: steak dinners,
pork chops, chicken, pastas
and we have a few options
for burgers, chilis, a sirloin
dip like a French dip but with
sirloin meat so it’s better,”
Tish said. “When I switch to
the winter menu in a couple
of weeks, we’ll be gearing
toward the warm, comfort
foods, so a lot of hot sand-
wiches, hot rolls and soups.”
They’ll also have a
unique, namesake off ering.
“We are going to serve
a ‘brick of fries,’ because
we are The Brick,” she said.
“You typically see something
like that at a fair. It’s this
compressed ‘brick’ of pota-
toes and you fry it … usually
they’re topped with cheese,
chili and you can even do a
lot of diff erent things.”
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Bill Bradshaw is a
reporter for the Wallowa
County Chieftain. Have a
business tip? Contact him
at 541-398-5503 or bbrad-
shaw@wallowa.com.
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