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If you haven’t heard of the latest restaurant to take Wagga by storm then you’re missing out. Cave BBQ only opened its doors three weeks ago but the response from customers has been phenomenal.
Owner Jason Crowley has always had a passion for hospitality and worked in the industry from a young age before he moved in corporate IT for 20 years.
Luckily for us, his food dream didn’t die.
He came back on the scene with Crowley’s Hot Sauce which lead him into catering for major events and enabled him to create something a little different with his style of slow barbecue.
Despite loving his mobile catering business, constant questions from customers about when he was opening a store and always wanting to own a restaurant encourage him to take the leap.
One call seven months ago secured Cave BBQ’s current site.
There wasn’t an exact plan for how the building would look when they started the renovations.
“It wasn’t so much ‘planning’ but ripping out the old and seeing what was under the covers before I could really start getting a feel of what we had to work with,” Jason said.
“I didn’t want to cover anything up, but expose the building and use it and its history and then build within what the building literally said I could do.
“Half of the experience with dining here is experiencing everything that the building provides, plus what our builders have done.”
The first two months of the renovations saw 25 tonnes of rubble removed from the building. From here the builders took the reins, guided by Jason.
“They literally had to dig inside my brain to get out what I was thinking,” he said.
“Tyler and his team of gun carpenters didn’t hold back. A lot of the structural finishes and fabricated parts were the ideas of a few builders, it really does the building justice.”
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