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Business is booming for owner of Smithtown restaurant Luso

Luisa Batista, 57, of St. James, opened Luso

Photo credit: Tara Conry

The roughly 30 vacant stores along Smithtown’s Main Street are signs of businesses that did not succeed. However, Luisa Batista’s restaurant, Luso, has been so successful since the St. James woman, 57, opened it four years ago that it has outgrown its current space at 101 E. Main Street. On March 29, Batista, a native of Portugal, will be holding the grand reopening for her restaurant at its new...

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