It will not open for a few months, but we want to start this blog off with some upbeat restaurant news.
In June, Patty Stella of Tewksbury, who has 17 years in the restaurant business, plans to open a Mediterranean restaurant on Market Street in Lowell, next to the post office.
The self-taught chef is excited about the interior and plans on breaking up the 2,000 square-foot space in two with a bar that seats 14 and a dining room for 50.
For the interior Stella envisions chocolate brown and Tiffany blue for a Miami feel.
But forget the cosmetics, what about the food?
It may be a Mediterranean restaurant, but Centro will have American, Italian and French influences.
“It’s comfort food, primarily. But very seasonal. In the winter macaroni and cheese will be made with five kinds of cheeses and truffles.”
Our stomach just started to wake up. If she can pull it off, she also mentioned meat loaf with a twist, Stella will have one of the more exciting restaurants in Lowell.
Patrons at the bar can nosh on tapas served all day, including the hard to fill food void between 2:30 and 5 p.m.
“As a chef getting out at 3 p.m. there were never places we could go to eat.”
We don’t know what’s on the drink menu yet because Stella is in the midst of applying for a liquor license.
Her target audience is the empty lofters moving out of Boston, people between 30 and 50, a market that is crying out to be catered to in Lowell.
Stella cooked in La Boniche’s kitchen in the mid to late ’90s, and was the executive chef at the Andover Inn-
“It’s taken a long time, hopefully this will work.”
www.centrolowell.com