Their latest item is a little something called Tavern Ramen, a pop-up restaurant that will be in operation during this Sunday's Victorian Stroll.
The venue will be 217 Broadway, just off Monument Square, where Christopher and LaVine are resurrecting The Tavern, a longtime mainstay that has been in ruins for years. Tavern Ramen will offer ramen noodle dishes -- guaranteed to be popular with the city's many students from RPI, Russell Sage and Hudson Valley colleges -- plus pork buns and a few other items from 11 a.m. on Sunday.
Will this pop-up lead to something more permanent?
"We're taking the concept for a test-drive," Christopher says. "(It) could evolve into something else at some point."
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| Spiak's dining room neon sign. |
Christopher and LaVine already operate the Charles F. Lucas Confectionery & Wine Bar and The Grocery in the same neighborhood, both in once-crumbling buildings they have completely renovated.
The couple has a penchant for preserving/restoring as many original items as possible in their projects, or re-purposing others with a touch of local history. A prime example of the latter is their acquisition of the dining room neon sign that hung for years at Spiak's, a popular Watervliet restaurant that has closed due to retirement.
"Walter Spiak has been working in the restaurant since he was 12, and he's got no regrets about retiring. He wanted the dining room sign to end up in a highly visible location, so he decided to send it our way," Christoper says.
"It will be displayed prominently at The Tavern Restaurant. The sign has been on display for decades, and is actually a replacement for the original sign which read 'Ladies Entrance'."
For those of you who keep track of such anachronistic items, the former South End Tavern in Troy -- still up for sale along with several adjacent buildings -- still has a "Ladles Entrance" sign on premises.
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