Landscaping, fixing up houses, and ... running a restaurant? There seems to be little Chip Gaines can't do. Another Gaines' sideline venture has been to fix up a well-known restaurant in Waco, Texas that had shut down. And just like always, Gaines is taking on this new project hand in hand with his wife. He spoke with Southern Living (per Entertainment Tonight) about the local spot, saying, "I've always been a breakfast connoisseur. I always do a heavy, bigger breakfast, but Jo is the exact opposite. She was kind enough to come with me on this one, and we are going to do up a breakfast joint here in town."
And Gaines isn't afraid to get his hands dirty. An establishment that has been open since 1919, he knew there would be some intense renovating needed. And like he has always said, hard work is key. "The restaurant itself is literally one big giant kitchen," he said. "When we first got in there, it was all the things you can imagine — dingy, musky. But if I took you in there today, you'd be like 'Oh! This is so clean, everything smells so great.' Those are a few benefits of a little bit of elbow grease and hard work on the front end."
The restaurant finally opened up in 2018 — under a whole new name: Magnolia Table, which also became the name of Joanna Gaines' solo cooking show on their Magnolia Network, as well as the title of her 2018 cookbook, which spawned two sequels.
