The owners of Maestro’s, a restaurant in downtown Saratoga Springs, N.Y., are relocating to McGregor Links CC in Wilton, N.Y., in a move that will provide more kitchen space and an opportunity to further expand a fast-growing catering operation.

 

The restaurant owners who are moving Maestro’s restaurant from downtown Saratoga Springs. N.Y. to a nearby country club, McGregor Links CC in Wilton, N.Y., see the move as an opportunity to also expand a growing catering operation, the Albany (N.Y.) Business Review reported.

Maestro’s at McGregor will open in mid-March, said Bill Donovan, a partner in Donovan and Adie Inc., the group that owns Maestro’s along with Harvey’s Restaurant and Pub, and Symphony Catering.

Donovan and Adie sold its Saratoga Springs restaurant, but not the brand name, to the owners of the Adelphi Hotel, an historic hotel that is undergoing a major renovation, the Business Review reported. The new owners plan to open a high-end steakhouse called Salt and Char, Donovan said.

When Donovan closed Maestro’s in mid-November, the Business Review reported, he did not plan to re-open it and was focused on searching for commercial space for his year-and-a-half-old, fast-growing Symphony Catering operation. Donovan was receptive to selling Maestro’s, the Business Review reported, because the catering company’s growth was putting too much stress on the kitchen at the restaurant.

Through the partnership with McGregor Links, the Business Review reported, the relocated and reopened restaurant, called Maestro’s at McGregor, will be open seven days a week from May to September, and possibly several nights a week during the semi-private club’s off-season as well.

As C&RB reported last January (http://clubandresortbusiness.com/?s=McGregor+Links+Country+Club), after McGregor Links came under new ownership, it announced plans to expand into more winter sports activities and also to open a new on-site brew-pub operation. Druthers Brewing Company moved into the club’s restaurant space this past spring, the Business Review reported, but that relationship ended and McGregor’s owners began talks with several potential replacements that eventually led to the agreement with Donovan and Adie.

“We were really looking to put the membership first [as] it’s growing,” Blake Crocitto, who became an owner of McGregor a year ago, told the Business Review. “[Maestro’s brings] a diversified menu.”

In the past year, Crocitto said, membership at McGregor Links has grown from about 440 members to about 600 members.

The partnership is expected to have major benefits for the Symphony Catering operation as well, the Business Review reported.

“McGregor is a perfect match for Symphony, because it allows us some venues we don’t have now,” Donovan said.

In 2015, Symphony catered 137 events, according to Donovan, who said he expects that count to double in 2016, the Business Review reported,

Chef Danny Petrosino, a part-owner in the catering company, will oversee the kitchen at Maestro’s during the first few months of its run at McGregor Links, the Business Review reported.