Broadway Market opens in Rocky Point with restaurant and bar

Nearly a year of suspense is over in Rocky Point, where Broadway Market has been taking shape, seemingly brick by brick, since last spring.

On Thursday, the doors were unlocked to an immaculate space that does triple duty as a market, restaurant and bar and serves things such as grass-fed burgers, lemon-meringue doughnuts and Lillet-laced margaritas on tap.

The business, situated on the footprint of the former Gracie’s Hearty Foods, was built by co-owners Ann Olenick and Shasho Pole, who met via the Rocky Point Farmers Market several years ago — Pole selling his own organic beef, chicken, and pork (raised upstate), and Olenick vending her signature cookie pies and puffs.

Meats, both cooked and raw, and pastries anchor the left side of the market, which has displays full of baked goods such as cookie dough puffs, as well as an espresso bar pouring Counter Culture Coffee. During breakfast and lunch, guests can counter-order sandwiches, flatbreads and pre-made salads, including a market sandwich layered with fried eggs, maple bacon, tomato and Mornay sauce on a house-baked potato bun ($10), a Dutch baby pancake with hazelnut crunch and dulce de leche ($10) and bacon-potato-leek flatbread ($12).

There’s also Coastal Craft Kombucha on tap and grass-fed ground beef and sausages from Pole’s company, Naturally Grass Fed, for sale. “We hope to eventually add lamb and duck,” from other producers, said Olenick.

Across the room is a sleek 44-seat restaurant and bar with broad windows and exposed ductwork. Lunchers can take a seat at one of the tables once they’ve ordered in the market; at the bar, the drinks list includes at least one draft cocktail — that Lillet margarita will eventually rotate — as well as a kombucha mule, a few wines and some locally made craft beers on tap.

Sit-down dinner service begins at 4 p.m. Leading the 18-person kitchen team is chef Dmytro Guydash, formerly executive sous chef at Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton; consulting chef Johnny Maher of Rockville Centre’s Flour Shoppe Cafe & Bakery was central to menu development and training, according to both Maher and Olenick.

Broadway Market’s dinner menu pivots on comfort food with twists, such as cauliflower steak with hazelnut romesco and curried coconut sauce ($12); a vegan carrot, turmeric and miso soup ($8); grass-fed burgers and handful of flatbreads ($11-17), including one topped with herb-laced chicken meatballs.

“It’s a unique concept — it’s not just sitting down and looking at a menu,” Olenick said, so there was ample staff on hand to guide visitors from counter to table on opening day.

Come late May, Broadway Market will open an outdoor patio with a firepit.

The market is open Tuesday to Saturday for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and Sunday for breakfast and brunch, closing at 3 p.m.

Broadway Market, 643 Broadway, Rocky Point. 631-849-1729. bmropo.com