More information is also available on the Bean Restaurant Group website. Updates will be provided on the Wurst Haus website. “This is really positive news for the community,” said Danielle Veronesi, director of marketing for Bean Restaurant Group. There will be holiday to-go dinners available at the Wurst Haus as well, Shuman said. Union Kitchen serves brunch on both weekend days. “We will also do brunch,” Shuman said, although not right away, and probably only on Sunday. Wurst Haus will also provide food to go, and will serve lunch as well as dinner. West Hartford’s outdoor dining has been extended well into November, and Shuman said Wurst Haus will be using some of what is currently Union Kitchen’s outdoor dining area and some of what is being used by Àvert, which is its LaSalle Road neighbor on the north, will also be reallocated. German beers, wines, and cocktails will also be featured.Ī similar Wurst Haus logo will be painted on the wall in the former McLadden’s in West Hartford. “It will be more trendy, casual German dining.” West Hartford’s Wurst Haus menu will be more expansive than the Northampton Wurst Haus, which specializes in small bites, but won’t be as big as the Student Prince menu, and the price point will be a bit lower, “more friendly,” Shuman said. There will also be plant-based sausage on the menu. There will be schnitzels, baked scrod, goulash, spaetzle, and giant pretzels as big as your head, as well as salads and a variety of bratwurst and knockwurst. “The sausages are going to be done locally,” Shuman said, most likely through a partnership with Bloomfield-based Grote & Wiegal, which already has a relationship with Bean Restaurant Group. Union Kitchen has been doing a series of pop-ups of other Bean Restaurant Group cuisines, and will introduce a few items from the future Wurst Haus menu as an Oktoberfest teaser beginning the first week of October. Shuman spent more than three years working at Student Prince before being tapped to open Union Kitchen, so being the chef of a German restaurant is right up his alley. The West Hartford space is much larger than Northampton and has a full kitchen, and the Wurst Haus in West Hartford Center’s concept will combine elements of the Student Prince as well as the Wurst Haus’ casual pub vibe. The interior of the former McLadden’s is in the midst of demolition and the space will reopen as Wurst Haus. Patrick’s Day celebration that never quite happened. Early this week, a dusty shamrock still hung over the bar, a sad memento of the St. Unlike Union Kitchen and most other establishments in West Hartford, McLadden’s never reopened. Ned Lamont’s earliest COVID-19 executive orders prohibited on-premises dining in bars and restaurants as of March 16. Like all restaurants and bars, McLadden’s was shuttered when one of Gov. Shuman, a West Hartford native who was already with Bean Restaurant Group, returned to his hometown as executive chef and partner at Union Kitchen. – now Union Kitchen – and the McLadden’s locations from Mike Ladden in 2018. The Yee family’s Massachusetts-based Bean Restaurant Group, in partnership with Peter Picknelly, CEO of Peter Pan Bus Lines, made its first foray into Connecticut when it purchased the former Noble & Co. That will change as soon as the end of October, when the former Irish pub, McLadden’s, is transformed by Bean Restaurant Group into Wurst Haus, with Chef/Partner Zachary Shuman at the helm. West Hartford has a diversity of restaurants, but missing from the mix has been German food. Bean Restaurant Group is planning to transform the McLadden’s space into Wurst Haus, a concept that is already very popular in Massachusetts.
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