Rants and Raves

Black Friday Bah, Fire District Merger Question Huzzah!

What to love and hate about living in East Greenwich this week.

RANT: With so much to be grateful for this season – a warm home and food on the table (knowing many have lost it all), the election finally over (well, abated for at least one year) the kids’ cats are on sabbatical from peeing on our beds (gross), narwhals (because if they exist, maybe unicorns do too), the return of the East Greenwich Hill and Harbor Turkey Trot, video games (because you can’t, scratch that, shouldn’t shoot stupid people in real life), the return of Jiggers, the opening of Silver Spoon Bakery (though my thighs aren’t quite as appreciative of that one), the survival of The Village Café, the reopening of the Odeum, our troops and anyone in any job that puts their life on the line, my dishwasher (or, more to the point, …

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New Owners Plan August Opening For Jiggers

The popular Main Street diner has been closed since November 2011.

It's really true: Jiggers is coming back. New owners Steve and Karie Head have been working on the Main Street diner since taking ownership a month ago and they hope to open in August. Karie, a physical therapist by trade, knows the diner business from her time at Oatlies in North Kingstown, which she owned with her ex-husband. She went back to PT after the divorce but missed cooking. "One of the food service reps that I'd been working with for a long time told me that this had foreclosed," Karie said, referring to Jiggers. Centreville Bank, which held the mortgage on the diner, took possession of it last November. "Steve and I went to Centreville Bank and put in a bid and they took it," Karie said, referring to her current husband, Steve…

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12:38 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012

PM Jones - you gotta be looking at the wrong website - breakfast and lunch menus right up front: http://hillandharbourdiner.com/Breakfast-Menu.html   more ›

New Restaurant Prepares To Open At Post Office Cafe Site

After more than a year of inaction, work is under way at the landmark building, with hopes for a late July opening.

There’s a restaurant construction boomlet taking place in East Greenwich right now. In addition to publicized happenings at Blu (the former 20 Water Street) and the Oyster Bar (formerly Custom House Coffee), there’s new life at the Post Office Cafe site, as well as Jiggers. Just when it was looking like the Post Office Cafe would become the Sunoco wasteland of northern Main Street, work is being done inside in preparation for reopening this summer. Brandon Sweet, manager at Waterplace Restaurant, said, “We are pushing for the end of July. “We are still finalizing the concept,” he continued. “There will be a little bit for everybody. It will be family friendly, but the menu won’t be in direct competition with The Grille.” Sweet was …

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Rants and Raves

Main Street Resurgent & Recycling Rubbish

What to love and loathe about living in East Greenwich this week.

RAVE: Happy things are happening on Main Street. Since bemoaning the abundance of empty storefronts last week, I have found out that two (oh, happy days! Not Italian) eateries are about to open. The Greenwich Bay Oyster Bar is going in where Custom House Coffee/Fat Belly’s Bagels/Café Panache/Julia’s  - which is when I moved here so there may be more and I may have missed some as this truly seems to be a black hole spot for businesses (but hopefully that’s about to change) – used to be (now there’s a mouthful for giving directions Rhode Island-style). As far as I’m concerned, any eatery that has the words "Oyster” and “Bar” in their name has to be good! So yay! Even tastier tidings come from the other side of the street where the …

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The Village Cafe Opens On Main Street

The restaurant - formerly Twisted Dogs and before that The Sweet Nest - opened Thursday.

The opening of The Village Cafe could be classified as a Main Street Christmas miracle - coming as it does after the closing to two beloved breakfast spots - Jigger's and Audra's - in recent months. Or maybe it's third time's the charm for a site that's now seen three restaurants open there since May. After Angelina's Italian Deli closed, The Sweet Nest opened in May, closing in July. Then Steve Filippou tried decided to open Twisted Dogs in September, but it too closed quickly, in November. Anne Steger is the proprietor of The Village Cafe. She's worked in restaurants her whole life. “I had the money and I wanted to try this,” she said in November. “I’ve wanted this a long time.” The restaurant will serve traditional diner fare - eggs, …

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