The Syracuse, N.Y., club’s restaurant will be public and rechristened Pascale’s Italian Bistro at Drumlins, headed by Neal and Chuck Pascale and their business partner, Bob Diruzzo. The group will also take the reins of the club’s two banquet rooms, which seat 500 and 130 people, and will likely open in February.
The restaurant and banquet rooms at Drumlins Country Club in Syracuse, N.Y., will be taken over by the partners behind Pascale Restaurant and Pascale’s Bake House in Fayetteville and Justin’s Tuscan Grill, the Syracuse Post-Standard reported.
The club’s restaurant will be rechristened Pascale’s Italian Bistro at Drumlins, said Neal Pascale, who will join his brother, Chuck Pascale, and their business partner, Bob Diruzzo, in the project. The restaurant will be open to the public, the Post-Standard reported.
The banquet rooms—one seats 500 and another seats 130—should be open by February, Neal Pascale said. The restaurant may take until March to open. “We are doing significant cosmetic improvements,” Pascale said. “It is drab and we want to bring it back to life.”
Drumlins is owned by Syracuse University and operates as both a golf and country club and a conference and event center. The last major change at the restaurant came in 2012, when it became Windows on the Green, a public year-round lunch and dinner spot, with an adjacent members’ dining room. Windows on the Green closed for the season December 14, the Post-Standard reported.
The Pascale partners will bring both traditional and contemporary Italian dishes to the lunch and dinner menus, Neal Pascale said. The restaurant will aim for local sourcing of ingredients when possible and get its breads and desserts from the Pascale Bake House. “The lunch menu will be similar to the Bake House, with an Italian twist,” Neal Pascale said. The bistro will also have a full bar, the Post-Standard reported.
The partners have extensive experience in both the restaurant business and in banquets and catering. Pascale Wine Bar & Restaurant was an urban pioneer when it opened in the 1980s, the Post-Standard reported.
“We feel like we do well in that end of the business, and that’s what will happen at Drumlins,” he said.
Members of the family are also partners in several local liquor and wine stores carrying the family name, the Post-Standard reported.
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