Downtown Fresno is slated to get another wine bar – actually a wine and cheese bar – with a specialty market when Fig & Honey Lavish Grazing moves to Fulton Street.

The Fresno catering company specializes in charcuterie boards, and larger, elaborate displays of fruit, cheese, meat and nuts for snacking.

Fig & Honey plans to move into two spaces at the historic T.W. Patterson Building on Fulton Street near Tulare Street.

Owners Kellie Hasson and Allison Cassabon will begin using half the space for catering and pickup services of their food in mid June, while renovating the space next door.

That space will be turned into a wine and cheese bar open to the public, with a market and patio seating, the Downtown Fresno Partnership announced Thursday. That side of the business is scheduled to open this fall.

It is the second wine bar this year to announce plans to open in downtown Fresno. St. Joaquin – by the same people who own Quail State’s rooftop bar – plans to open a natural wine bar in the Peerless Building, the big 1935 brick building at the corner of Broadway and Amador streets.

Fig & Honey won the downtown partnership’s 2020 Create Here Business Plan Competition. It included a $10,000 cash prize to help open the business.

It will add another place to eat within walking distance of the growing Brewery District, not far from Tioga-Sequoia Brewing Co. and Chukchansi Park.

This story was originally published May 20, 2021 at 4:51 PM.

Bethany Clough

The Fresno Bee

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Bethany Clough covers restaurants and retail for The Fresno Bee. A reporter for more than 20 years, she now works to answer readers’ questions about business openings, closings and other business news. She has a degree in journalism from Syracuse University and her last name is pronounced Cluff.