23-05-2025
Levitt area restaurants looking forward to season
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Levitt at the Falls kicks off its new season Friday night in downtown Sioux Falls.
50 free concerts will entertain crowds throughout the summer.
'It's something we look forward to every year,' Swamp Daddy's Cajun Kitchen Owner and Chef Del'Inkka Beaudion said.
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Swamp Daddy's is inside the Jones 421 building, which is close to the Levitt.
'We definitely see an influx of customers that come and get dinner with us with the family, and then walk over to the Levitt and enjoy the concerts,' Beaudion said.
While Swamp Daddy's has been serving Levitt fans for years, a new restaurant in the area is getting ready for its first Levitt season.
The Lodge Bar & Grill at Jacobson Plaza opened less than a month ago.
The restaurant is managed by the Washington Pavilion.
'We've already been staffing up, we're extending our hours this week to accommodate for Levitt, so we've been preparing for this since we opened,' The Lodge Bar & Grill General Manager Andy Wolf said.
Last year's season attendance at the Levitt was 90,000 people.
'It's just important to get the community down and start to see what this area and this part of town is expanding into, what we have to offer as far as shops and food and beverage and just places you can relax, patio spaces, the park,' Wolf said.
'As a small business owner, I can speak for us all downtown that we appreciate the business and the influx of traffic, foot traffic that we have coming downtown,' Beaudion said.
Friday's season opener is Grammy-nominated Divinity Roxx, who has played bass for Beyoncé.
The music starts at 7:00 pm.
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