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Business Roundup: New dining options among changes this season

Headlining the Island’s new business line-up this summer are major changes in Shelter Island’s dining options. Ownership of three popular restaurants, Pat & Steve’s, the former Olde Country Inn and Planet Bliss has changed and there is “Fresh” management in the restaurant space at Goat Hill.

Adding to what’s new among Island businesses this season are two Heights-based home decor stores, the debut of an independent real estate office and many enhancements and additions to existing Island businesses.

Local food sourcing is a hot trend in restaurant menus; new farm stands and markets will be on the scene; and the Boltax Building is home to three new business tenants.

NEW RESTAURANTS

Effective June 1, Chris Chobar and Ashley Knight have taken a four-year lease with an option to buy Pat & Steve’s (749-5028), the Center’s popular family restaurant. For the time being, everything — including the name — will remain the same. The only immediate change the new proprietors are making is to expand the hours to seven days and evenings. The couple hopes to obtain a beer and wine permit and eventually a liquor license but Mr. Chobar is quick to point out that “we are not turning Pat & Steve’s into a bar!”

Mr. Chobar is known to many Islanders as a contractor and handyman. He won’t be giving up his day job but will handle the business’s management and bookkeeping. Ms. Knight, who recently left her position selling business management software, will be the hands-on partner. They each have had extensive restaurant experience in their backgrounds, both in the kitchen and the front of the house.

According to Ms. Knight, the couple has been “talking about this for awhile, some three plus years, and this year we decided to make it happen. It’s the perfect location, the perfect business for us,” she said.

“We didn’t want someone to take it over and turn it into yet another fine dining restaurant,” Mr. Chobar added. “As working class people, we want someplace we can go that’s still affordable. We want a place where people can come in after the beach or a ball game and have a non-stuffy place in which to kick back.”

Originally planning a 10-year run in the restaurant business, Pat and Steve Lenox put the business up for sale several years ago. This season would have marked their 12th summer.

Opening up in the space long occupied by Planet Bliss, Elizabeth Ronzetti and Adam Kopdls are the chef-owners who will be bringing their seasonally-based cuisine to Shelter Island to a fine dining restaurant called 18 Bay. Concentrating on dinner, the duo will serve up homemade pasta, local fish and produce with their “chef’s menu” concept, an ever-changing line-up of what the markets have to offer that day.

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