Connor Scott and Lainey Catalino are opening The Abbey in downtown Brunswick in early December. Courtesy picture
The former home of Brunswick’s Little Dog Coffee Shop is getting new life.
The proprietor of the Maine Street store shuttered the business over the summer season in response to a strike by unionized staff over working situations. It has been vacant ever since. A former California espresso store proprietor deliberate to open a café there however deserted the plan after receiving backlash from the group.
Connor Scott and Lainey Catalino, who dwell within the Brunswick space and have labored within the native hospitality business for greater than 20 years mixed, are turning over new a web page with The Abbey restaurant. They are leasing the area from building proprietor Tondreau LLC and don’t have any affiliation with the previous espresso store.
The Abbey will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, with craft cocktails, and be open six days every week, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. It’s scheduled to open in early December.
“Our goal is to raise the bar for hospitality in the Brunswick area,” Scott stated.
Catalino stated the restaurant is “built off the history of food and beverage being used an expression of love.”
Planned menu gadgets embrace espresso from Portland-based Bard Coffee, a breakfast sandwich with a baked egg, cheese, Calabrian chili aioli, serrano ham and membrillo (a kind of candy jelly), and a each day quiche with an arugula salad within the morning. For lunch and dinner, choices will embrace ash reshteh (a thick Persian soup), oysters, mussels al forno and noquerones, comprised of marinated zucchini, black pepper whipped feta and walnuts. For dessert, there’s crème brûlée and a brown butter chocolate chip cookie.
Scott and Catalino plan to carry group occasions like lessons about making your personal cocktails.
“The Abbey is a place for all things,” Scott stated. “It’s a place the place you may get your espresso within the morning, go to a lunch assembly at 1 p.m. and return in your anniversary dinner at evening.
“It’s built on community and a place to come together.”
The pair met working at Sea Dog Brewing Company and in the course of the pandemic steadily hosted dinner events at their condo, which they nicknamed “The Abbey.”
“We thought how cool it would be to bring that to the broader community and not just our friends and family,” Scott stated.
They plan to rent a employees of 11 to fifteen and are working with Bangor Savings Bank on financing.
Scott famous Brunswick’s progress in recent years.
“Brunswick is becoming more a destination and a place where people want to live and move,” he stated. “The addition of The Abbey will help further that mission.”
The former Little Dog Coffee Shop area on Maine Street in Brunswick. Jason Claffey / The Times Record
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