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Executive Chef Scott Goldrick stands in front of the new Broad Bay Bistro in Waldoboro. (D. Lobkowicz photo) |
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By Dominik Lobkowicz
A new bistro-style restaurant opening in the Waldoboro village is aimed at bringing unique options with fresh, local ingredients to the area.
The restaurant is located behind the commercial block of Friendship Street where The Lower Deck opened last fall.
Local entrepreneurs Josh Howell and Jeff Hurd own the restaurant, and hired Executive Chef Scott Goldrick to run it.
“They want to bring something down to Waldoboro center something different, with a fresh menu, fresh local ingredients, with this view, and bring some more life into this place,” Goldrick said. “Something that’s not here, something that’s not really found in the area.”
The menu is “unique,” Goldrick said. “This is a mind meld from myself, some of my influences, some things that Josh wanted to see and some things that Jeff wanted to see. We’ve been basically hashing over it for the last three weeks.”
Along with a lot of sandwiches, the bistro will offer lobster Johnny cake, traditional Maine items such as lobster rolls and seafood, and burritos.
“They wanted a really good burrito. It’s hard to find a good burrito in the area so it made its way on there,” Goldrick said.
Seating has been expanded both inside – from seven to about 20 seats – and outside, which now seats between 30 and 40 people, Goldrick said. Lobster steams and a fresh raw bar featuring Pemaquid oysters will be offered out on the deck on weekends, he said.
The restaurant is scheduled to open on Thursday, June 5, and will likely operate from 11:30 a.m. to around 10 or 11 p.m. seven days a week, Goldrick said.
Whether or not the restaurant stays open for the winter or shuts down to hibernate will depend on how business goes, Goldrick said.
“Right now the thought is we’ll go with it as long as we’re still making profit. If we get into the winter time and we’re still drawing a lot of locals just inside, then it seems feasible that we’ll keep it open,” he said.
There are plans to expand seating even further into the building next year, he said.
“If it’s successful this summer, then [we’d] expand inside and it’ll be year-round after this year, possibly,” he said.
Goldrick grew up south of Boston, and attended Le Cordon Bleu in Cambridge after he got out of the U.S. Marine Corps in 2003. He moved to the Midcoast last year and worked at a restaurant in Lincolnville.
“Came up here as a kid, all summers, loved the area,” Goldrick said. “Got two little kids myself, so I want them to grow up not so much in the city like I did but more rural, and a little bit more laid back than we were used to down there.”
