Managers of the iconic Manhasset bar Publicans intend to open the bar’s doors once more by Dec. 1, a source close to the owners said.
While the managers are still “working things out” with the Town of North Hempstead, the source said, they hope to reopen the bar by the Christmas season. It has been closed since last year.
A handwritten note in the window of the bar, which was placed there in September, says: “Closed for light renovations. Stay tuned for exciting news, opening in [less than] one month. See you soon!”
Publicans, which has stood on Plandome Road since its opening in 1977, received widespread recognition in Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer’s memoir “The Tender Bar.” At the time of publication in 2005, it had been rechristened as Edison’s since 1999, but three years ago, the bar returned to its original name.
In 2017, its new owners reimagined and renovated Publicans as a gastropub, creating a new menu and including new beers on tap.
Newsday reported that a Manhasset Craigslist ad for “kitchen opportunities” advertises a “historic kitchen & taphouse … currently seeking head chef, sous chef & line cooks for grand reopening.”
A written request for comment from Imian Partners, the Connecticut-based company that oversaw the renovations, was not immediately returned.
