New restaurant focused on ‘upscale comfort foods with a twist’ to open in Lakewood Ranch
February 08, 2024
The gastropub will feature ownership that’s also operated multiple New York City restaurants.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
A new gastropub, with ownership that’s operated other restaurants in New York City, plans to soon debut in Lakewood Ranch’s Sarasota County development Waterside Place.
Allswell hopes to open by September, said co-owner Tory Delany. Allswell’s owners have also operated New York City eateries such as The Malt House, a tavern with two Manhattan locations, and Southern California-style Mexican restaurant/mezcal and tequila bar Mezcali, also in Manhattan.
Delany, who moved to Lakewood Ranch in 2022, felt with all the fellow newcomers to the area that there was a market for the type of restaurants as those ones in New York City, which she described as “high-energy” with “excellent service, top-quality food.”
“Not to say that we didn’t experience that down here, but that we saw with such a rapidly growing community that there was room for many other restaurants and bars to open here to accommodate all of the new residents of Lakewood Ranch and the surrounding areas,” Delany said.
Delany described the intended ambience of Allswell as a “pub setting that serves high-quality food and high-quality drinks, with the focus being on upscale comfort foods with a twist.” Some potential menu item examples she gave included duck shepherd’s pie, bone-in beef rib with black garlic barbecue, cod fish and chips with English pea puree and malt vinegar aioli, short rib grilled cheese, burrata and stone fruit salad, pork belly sliders, Dungeness crab queso, and BFG (baked, fried, grilled) wings.
Allswell will also be full-liquor and offer handcrafted cocktails, a craft beer selection incorporating local breweries, and wine. Delany said the restaurant space will seat around 150 people: about 70 indoors and about 80 outdoors, with a wraparound terrace that will include a private terrace garden for birthday parties, baby showers and other events.
The gastropub will join a list of Waterside Place dining and drinking destinations that also includes the already open Osteria 500, Good Liquid Brewing Co., Korê Steakhouse and Forked at Waterside. Other upcoming openings include Deep Lagoon Seafood & Oyster House, Mexican restaurant and tequila bar Agave Bandido, sushi bar and Japanese kitchen Dear Fish.
Allswell will be at 7500 Island Cove Terrace, Suite 102, Lakewood Ranch, and plans to be open daily starting at 11 a.m., with brunch on weekends and holidays and later closing hours on weekends as well.
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