Standing at the corner of 9th Street and Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, only a minor change to the awnings hint the major change inside. Zelo looks new. “Towards the end, our service and food didn’t match the décor,” said original Zelo owner Rick Webb.

Webb opened Zelo in 1999, and sold it in 2008 to focus on his restaurant Ciao Bella. He owned The Lexington in St. Paul throughout most of the 1990s, too. However, despite leaving Zelo in 2008, part of him never really left. “When I got the opportunity to own it again, I jumped at that,” he said.