Tina Hunter-Davis was working an event at Crawdaddy's on North Sixth Street when she noticed the empty restaurant space on the other side of the building. She came back the next week with her business partner, Tiffiney Portee, to look at it. "When it was Cafe 1500, I had only been in here and had brunch once," Hunter-Davis told TheBurg. "Tiffiney had never been, so when we came in, it was kind of like seeing it with new eyes."
Within a year, Crawdaddy's had closed too. Today both first-floor restaurant spaces at 1500 N. Sixth St. are open again. Each went to people who had already been inside that building and had a reason to come back.
One Building, Two Rooms
The 1500 Condominium has two restaurant spaces on its first floor, and Midtown has known them by different names over the years. One was Cafe 1500, a room of more than 4,000 square feet with an expansive dining area, floor-to-ceiling windows and a wrap-around bar. The other was Crawdaddy's, which closed in January 2026 after more than a decade in business.
As of this fall, the Cafe 1500 space is Élevé and the Crawdaddy's space is Slice Fine Cuisine & Sports. Each reopening started with a personal tie to the building.
The Event Planners Who Kept the Kitchen Running
Élevé did not open as a restaurant. Hunter-Davis and Portee launched it as Élevé Event Studio, a venue for wedding receptions, bridal showers and corporate gatherings, with in-house catering, a bar and in-house decorating. In January they told TheBurg they planned to open in February or March, once a state retail license and city zoning and occupancy approvals came through. The room seats 125 people for events with a dance floor and holds 170 for cocktail-hour events. A side lounge adds extra space.
Running an event studio means a full commercial kitchen sits unused between bookings. "There's gaps in between events," Hunter-Davis told TheBurg in August. "With what we have here and how beautiful it is, we just wanted to open up this commercial kitchen and have a go at it." The restaurant held its grand opening the last week of July.
The menu is soul food built around the owners' home recipes. It includes crab cake balls, southern fried wings, smash burgers and honey BBQ glazed chicken. Specials include Portee's banana pudding and potato salad, plus Hunter-Davis's cabbage, rasta pasta and chocolate cake with peanut-butter icing. The head cook is Jennifer Sims, Portee's mother, known in the kitchen as "Mama Jen."
Portee told TheBurg that people in the community had asked for an evening spot to relax, hear music and maybe dance a little. "We heard the cry, and this is our answer," she said. The Élevé website advertises karaoke, DJs, live music, jazz, football and basketball. The site lists these as regular offerings and does not give dates.
The Corner Slice's Owner Grew Up Around
The Crawdaddy's space went to someone who knew it from the inside. Sachiko Baez's family owned Crawdaddy's, and she helped her uncle run it toward the end of the pandemic. "I've always been interested in that space," she told TheBurg in May. "I always envisioned a sports bar."
Slice is named after her father's nickname. It is the second Harrisburg business from Baez and her partner, Jameson Christopher, who also own Coda Rouge on Sixth Street. The decor is meant to honor local sports figures. "We want to represent the Harrisburg talent," Baez told TheBurg. "There's so much sports talent that came out of Harrisburg." She described the feel this way: "You'll feel like you're in a big city, but this is your neighborhood."
The May target was a soft opening at the end of June. According to PennLive, Slice actually started its soft opening with lunch on Saturday, Sept. 12. Baez told PennLive the menu is "not going to be the normal bar food that you get if you go to any other sports bar." The opening plans also included billiards, live music and possibly golf simulators.
Slice and Élevé both appear on the Harrisburg Restaurant Week 2026 participant list. The event ran over two weeks this year, September 14–18 and September 21–25. Slice was only a few days into its soft opening when Restaurant Week began. Its Restaurant Week menu was a $30 three-course prix fixe. Choices included avocado fries, tomato-kale arancini, a Hawaiian smash burger, a Mexican street dog, skirt steak and lamb chops, with cake for dessert.
How the Two Rooms Split the Week
The two restaurants share a building but keep different hours, so they cover different parts of the week. Coda Rouge, a brunch café featuring Black art that opened in early 2024, sits a few hundred numbers up the street at 2013 N. Sixth St. Its daytime hours fill in the mornings that the other two don't.
These are the hours each business lists online as of late October 2026:
| Day | Coda Rouge, 2013 N. Sixth | Élevé, 1500 N. Sixth | Slice, 1500 N. Sixth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 8 a.m.–4 p.m. | Closed | 4–11 p.m. |
| Tuesday | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed | 4–9 p.m. | 4–11 p.m. |
| Thursday | 8 a.m.–4 p.m. | 4–9 p.m. | 4–11 p.m. |
| Friday | 8 a.m.–4 p.m. | 4–10 p.m. | Listed as 4 a.m.–midnight |
| Saturday | 10 a.m.–5 p.m. | 4–10 p.m. | Listed as 4 a.m.–midnight |
| Sunday | 10 a.m.–5 p.m. | Noon–5 p.m. | Noon–11 p.m. |
A few patterns stand out. On Mondays, Slice is the only one of the three open in the evening. On Sundays both rooms in the building open at noon, and Slice stays open until 11 p.m. after Élevé closes at 5. Tuesday is the one day all three are closed. Slice's online listing shows a 4 a.m. start on Fridays and Saturdays, out of line with its 4 p.m. weekday openings. During its soft-opening week, PennLive reported weekend dinner service running from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. If you're planning a late weekend night, call ahead.
Taken together, this stretch of North Sixth now has food and drink from Coda Rouge's 8 a.m. opening to Slice's 11 p.m. close on most days. That coverage depends on two businesses with the same owners and a third run by a pair who walked next door during someone else's event.
What Comes Next Along the Corridor
The next change in this part of Midtown may be the street itself. In May, City Council approved applying for a roughly $4.3 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant for safety improvements on Division Street between N. 2nd and N. 7th streets, a stretch that crosses Sixth. According to TheBurg, the plan includes traffic calming, new crossings, signal, sidewalk and ADA upgrades, and bike lanes. The project had not yet entered design. City grant materials list the application as pending. The federal funding notice was issued March 27, 2026, and says awards will be announced within 270 days. That puts the latest announcement date around Dec. 22.
Two city events fall before that date or shortly after:
- Holiday Parade: Saturday, Nov. 21, at 10 a.m. The theme is "A Season of Sharing," and the route runs downtown along Front and Second streets from Market to North. City of Harrisburg details.
- New Year's Eve: Thursday, Dec. 31, along Second Street, with the strawberry drop, fireworks at midnight and a free children's Glow Party at City Hall. City of Harrisburg details.
Whether the Division Street grant comes through or not, Midtown residents already have something new this year: both first-floor restaurant spaces at 1500 N. Sixth St. are serving again.
If you own a home near the Sixth Street corridor and want to know how a year like this shows up in your home's value, the John Smith Team is glad to walk through it with you. Request a Free Home Valuation, and we'll start with your block.
