NEW MILFORD — It is been seven a long time given that Joseph Yorio brought upscale barbecue to Danbury in the kind of The Cue, his restaurant at 2 Pembroke Highway. Subsequent month, Yorio intends to duplicate the upscale barbecue expertise with a second restaurant in New Milford.
The Cue’s second restaurant will open up mid-Oct at 59 Financial institution St. and the bordering home at 30 Railroad St. The house at 30 Railroad St. beforehand housed the BBQ cafe Cool Hand Duke’s though the room at 59 Financial institution St. earlier housed an American high-quality-dining restaurant, Duke’s Tavern.
Cool Hand Duke’s and Duke’s Tavern operated out of the similar setting up and kitchen area and shut for business in June, just a single thirty day period soon after the restaurants merged with the restaurant Zaragoza to kind a new hospitality group identified as Duke’s Hospitality.
Yorio claimed his next cafe will run out of a smaller space 25 minutes from his primary restaurant in Danbury. The menu will also be minimal, though Yorio reported he’s hoping to develop “a tiny, a lot more creative menu.”
Yorio, the head chef, also anticipates the 2nd cafe will create an even larger interest in The Cue’s catering company.
“This weekend, we ended up at a max,” Yorio reported of Labor Day weekend. “We could not place out any extra food stuff for catering. We have been so hectic amongst catering a marriage and operating the cafe.”
The New Milford restaurant’s hrs of procedure have still to be determined.
Including Yorio, The Cue has above 50 staff members members. The vital will be instruction the restaurant’s two chefs, Govt Chef Dan Nowak and Chef Phil Eco-friendly, to operate at both of those spots, Yorio said, as very well as the relaxation of the workers.
Creating The Cue
Just before opening The Cue, Yorio was associated with the catering enterprise for 20 yrs. He previously owned his have catering small business, Gourmet To Go, at 45 Padanaram Street just before closing the small business to open up his cafe.
The Cue officially opened for business enterprise on Padanaram Highway on Sept. 29, 2016.
“We held the catering company, we just bought rid of the connoisseur facet of matters,” Yorio stated, adding The Cue caters to weddings, yard BBQs, company functions, bar mitzvahs and other functions.
On prime of butchering and smoking the meat on website, Yorio reported almost everything on the menu at The Cue is manufactured from scratch, from the Béchamel sauce in the mac and cheese to the breading for the onion rings and pickles. He explained they also create their very own blend of meats for the restaurant’s burgers.
The restaurant’s menus are hooked up to wooden boards, which Yorio claimed had been purposely designed so they can modify the menus as significantly as they want and hold their possibilities new and seasonal.
Smoked key rib, infant again ribs, brisket and the “dirty steak,” a 16-ounce Angus steak cooked on a wood fire’s coals, are among the The Cue’s most popular menu things.
The restaurant’s bar carries “pretty significantly the premier collection of bourbons, whiskeys, ryes and scotch,” Yorio reported, and his daughter Caitlin Yorio, a sophomore learning prison justice and legislation at Western Connecticut Condition College, receives creative with the restaurant’s drink specials.
Yorio stated he “kind of fell into” the plan for a second restaurant as a consequence of his catering in New Milford. He stated he was knowledgeable about the house at 30 Railroad St. and 59 Bank St. opening up and bought the space in June. He’s now waiting around on permits to open up his second restaurant.
The Cue at 2 Padanaram Road is open up Mondays through Thursdays 2 to 10 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays 11 a.m. to midnight and Sundays 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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