When Steve and Cindy Caheely bought a 1930’s house in LaFayette in 1988, it was originally used as a gift shop, but when the retail business started struggling, Cindy Caheely decided to try out using the room to cater Christmas parties.
It filled up every opening within a week.
Ivy Cottage owners Steve and Cindy Caheely show off the LaFayette eatery’s dining room.“Everyone kept telling me, ‘Why don’t you open up a restaurant.'” Caheely said.
And they did just that. Twenty years ago this past April, she and her husband opened the Ivy Cottage.
“How many people can truly say they love being able to do what they do for 20 years?” Cindy Caheely said. “I love what I’m doing and being creative; instead of using a canvas for painting I use food.”