A year later, the two opened the cozy adjoining bar called Annex Cocktail Lounge, followed by Tourist Home Cafe, an all-day breakfast and lunch spot set in a wonderful old building slated for condemnation until Heinonen saved it in 2014.
They opened Tinderbox on Flagstaff’s then-sketchy southside in 2009. In another life, Heinonen was a lawyer, but he switched gears when his chef-cousin Scott Heinonen urged him to partner on a restaurant. Teatro honors the history of Flagstaff, while introducing something new THAT Place Projects is the umbrella company for Tinderbox, Annex, Tourist Home and now, Teatro. The space sat vacant until local restaurateur Kevin Heinonen, the founder of THAT Place Projects Hospitality Group, snapped it up last spring. Teatro resides in the historic building most recently occupied by Criollo Latin Kitchen, which closed for pandemic-related reasons in 2021. And with the opening of Teatro - pronounced tay-AH-tro - a brand-new Italian restaurant in the heart of downtown, it just got a little better. Roll your eyes if you must, but I’m telling you, for a mountain town overrun with college kids and a population hovering just under 80,000, Flagstaff rocks, culinarily speaking. View Gallery: Gallery: First look at Teatro restaurant in FlagstaffĪs I’ve said before, to anyone who’ll listen, I love Flagstaff and I’m excited about its blossoming food scene.
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