Overview:
Arts Alley, the new development on Main Street, will host its first public events this Friday, including the debut of Rose & Rye, a retro diner, and the start of its summer concert series. The complex will feature a trendy brunch restaurant, The Friendly Toast, a rooftop bar, and a Nashville-style bar, Duke's, which is set to open next year. The project, owned by Duprey Hospitality, has been in the works for years and is expected to become a new center of gravity for local live music, food, and events downtown.
With live music and a restaurant debut, the first public events at Main Street’s newest development this Friday will mark an arrival.
Arts Alley, the newly minted colorful complex between the BNH stage and the Co-op, aims to become a new center of gravity for local live music, food and events downtown. With a trendy brunch restaurant, the Friendly Toast, as its anchor, a rooftop bar and, in time, a Nashville-style bar, the package will add to Main Street’s offerings from pleasant mornings through into nightlife.
On Friday evening, the courtyard will kick off its summer concert series alongside the opening of Rose & Rye, a retro, traincar-style diner serving up nostalgia-fare from hotdogs to milkshakes.
The Friendly Toast, the “all day brunch and bar” with fourteen other locations across New England, is expected to open before the fall. Duke’s, a Nashville-inspired restaurant and bar set behind the new building, will open next year.
The project, owned by Duprey Hospitality, has been in the works for years, and broke ground last summer. Friday night’s concert, beginning at 5:30 p.m. marks its grand opening.
Catherine McLaughlin can be reached at cmclaughlin@cmonitor.com. You can subscribe to her Concord newsletter The City Beat at concordmonitor.com
