Bread & Vine Dubuque permenantly closed

Just eight months after opening its doors, a restaurant in Dubuque’s Historic Millwork District restaurant has closed. Bread & Vine Dubuque, 168 E. 10th St., is closed effective immediately, founder and CEO Eric Bonnetain said Tuesday. The Dubuque restaurant specialized in contemporary French cuisine with a trendy American twist, Bonnetain said. It opened in February in the downtown district. While busy on the weekends, Bonnetain said the Dubuque location was missing the consistent weekday traffic needed to keep the restaurant open. The Dubuque location was an expansion of Bread and Vine in Galena, Ill. The Galena location remains open with no plans for closure. Bonnetain said he is looking for a second site in Galena to offer a similar experience to Bread & Vine Dubuque, adding that he anticipates a more favorable response from Galena-area clientele than the one received in the Millwork District.