Blue Cat Steak & Wine Bar closed in April after an 18-year run at 1 Lawson Lane in Burlington. Owner Mariasha Giral introduced the information in a goodbye letter printed in Seven Days however in any other case declined to remark.
As of final week, the one different affirmation of Blue Cat’s closure was its standing as “completely closed” on reservation website OpenTable. There have been no indicators on the cozy alleyway steakhouse — the place tables have been nonetheless set — or on its web site, voicemail or social media.
Giral and her late husband, Ozzy, opened Blue Cat in 2006, the identical 12 months they moved to Vermont from New York City. In 2008, they shifted the menu from Italian-inspired panini and pasta to traditional steakhouse dishes, together with shrimp cocktail, truffled foie gras, filet mignon, steak au poivre and rib eye. The wine checklist featured 300-plus choices from world wide.
Giral continued to function the restaurant after her husband died unexpectedly in 2016 at age 36.
“While my husband and companion, Ozzy, has handed, I’d like to incorporate him on this goodbye, as properly,” she wrote within the closure announcement. “He was a frontrunner in our tucked-away wine bar in addition to the neighborhood and loved it greater than anybody else potential.”
