The Market LV welcomes three new proprietors

Sip your wine while you plan your room redesign and then fill it with flowers. The Market LV at Tivoli Village, 302 S. Rampart Blvd., has opened three new businesses this fall that allow one to do just that.

VIEW WINE BAR & KITCHEN AND THE CHEESE SHOPPE

The View Wine Bar & Kitchen features cuisine by Johnny Church, who began his culinary career at 12 in the kitchen of his mother's restaurant. Thanks to that early indoctrination, he rose quickly through the ranks to head such eateries as Root 246 in Solvang, Calif., and XIV in Los Angeles.

He said the new venue was a perfect fit for the shopping destination.

"It's more of a relaxed format; we're trying to do more small plates, farm to table, affordable gourmet," Church said. "It's a great product ---- a solid technique ---- at an affordable price point."

Tongue-in-cheek rules are written on a chalkboard as the "Rules Of Cheese," including: Share with others; Eat with wine or beer; All cheese is good; Savor the flavor; Allow us to cut it; and No PDA unless it's with cheese.

The deli display includes P'tit Basque from Pur Brebis, Rouge et Noir Triple Creme Brie, Cypress Grove Chevre's Humboldt Fog and Lamb Chopper sheep's milk cheese, as well as various mustards and grapes.

The View Wine Bar & Kitchen offers sandwiches such as grilled cheese for $9 and salads such as traditional Caesar for $7, as well as soups.

Why have "kitchen" in the name?

"I always tell all my cooks, if you're going to cook anything, cook like you're putting it up in the window for your mom," Church said.

He said he wanted it to be known as a place to relax, hang out and have wine with great food.

"Wine Bar & Kitchen and the Cheese Shoppe are two parts of a whole," said Andrea Young, who owns the Market LV with her husband, Russell.

"They are designed to operate as separate, but complementary entities. The intention is for people to be able to flow from one to the other and allow for in-house dining, as well as take-away. The menu is the same at both places, however happy hour is only in the Cheese Shoppe."

The Cheese Shoppe hours are from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, including a happy hour from 5 to 8 p.m. For more information, visit viewwinebar.com.

RIVER NORTH

Just around the corner is River North, where owner/operator Shelley Gorman has outfitted the space to give an idea of her interior decorating style. It is so inviting that patrons have mistaken it for a lounge or part of the View Wine Bar and started to take a seat, she said. It's a compliment in Gorman's eyes.

She got her architectural degree at the University of Arizona and worked on commercial properties. Now she has segued into the interior design side of things.

"Architects are problem solvers and, obviously, visual people, which carries over into many fields, especially to interior design," she said.

River North offers a new take on designing, one that is designer curated, with catalogs she is developing, showing various styles already pulled together. Clients can peruse the various styles as a starting point to select what is right for them.

"If you like what you see here, I'm already 50 or more percent there," she said. "Or you can bring in pictures, and I can help you pull together your look."

In the past, she has always worked on whole house interior projects, but River North's concept is more room by room. She said the client could "pick her brain" for an hour as she evaluates one room for $150, or she can take on a larger project and go through the whole house to pull it all together.

"I'm a girl who doesn't hold back, but I'm going to interview you, get your (vision), because it's all about you," she said. "So it's my intellectual property that's been developed and trained, and you and your individuality," she said.

For more information, visit rivernorthlv.com.

THIMBLEBERRY HOUSE

Tucked around the corner is another place that pulls one in: Thimbleberry House, a floral shop.

It opened Oct. 1 and is about 500 square feet, with a serene, cozy feel made even more inviting by the bubbling fountain. Owner/operator Jan Marroquin said the small space was just right for her needs.

"This is close enough for me to just grab things and put together an arrangement," she said. "It's not too much to bite off and chew for business right now."

For the past 25 years, she has been doing flower arrangements out of her home. She opened Thimbleberry House with her daughter, Joy. Fresh from college, Joy suggested that they open the shop together.

"It's nice to have a 24-year-old who wants to be with you," Jan Marroquin said.

She has lived all over the United States and said she took the best of what she found from living in the Midwest to the northwest and put it together for the Las Vegas market.

"A flower is a perfect, God-given object, ... there just can be nothing more perfect and beautiful than a flower to make you appreciate the uniqueness of yourself," Jan Marroquin said.

For more information, visit thimbleberryhouse.com.

The Market LV is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

For more information, visit themarketlv.com or tivolivillage.com.

Contact Summerlin/Summerlin South View reporter Jan Hogan at jhogan@viewnews.com or 702-387-2949.