Volunteers help: Extensive redo project delays LaX cafe launch

Dionne Evans is working from dawn to well past dark to get the former Teapot Cafe ready to open. Evans had hoped to open the restaurant, now the Grillbilly Cafe, by March 1, but she now expects to open by mid- to late-March.

Dionne Evans, left, and her mother, Jeannine Henley-Larkin, put the finishing touches on the counter in the dining area of the Grillbilly Cafe in LaCrosse. The refurbished restaurant is set to open by mid to late March.

She said the building, most likely built about 1915, needed major renovation, taking more time than she had initially planned.

“We are doing every major pa...