- May 1, 2024
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Grace’s Place Bagels could open in the old Best Bagels & Deli space by next week.
Grace Tutak, co-owner of Grace’s Place Bagels, which is set to open in the former Strathmore Bagels/Best Bagels & Deli location at 1000 Palm Coast Parkway, is anxious to open her restaurant for business.
According to Rob Robinson, owner of Commercial World real estate brokerage firm, Ed and Grace Tutak were ready to open Grace’s Place by Saturday, March 31.
“Things are looking real, real good,” Robinson said March 27. “It’s a done deal. They were trying to open March 12 but didn’t quite make it.”
Now, because of contracting and clerical lag, it seems that March 31 won’t quite make it, either. But the Tutaks remain resolved.
The new plan is to open by April 8. Worst-case scenario, Grace Tutak said, Grace’s will open April 15.
About half of the former Best Bagels staff has been rehired and will work at the new Grace’s Place, according to Grace Tutak.
Grace’s Place was also issued a $10,000 building permit through Palm Coast last week for interior alterations by 3D Contracting Inc. to the restaurant.
“The place is going to be all painted and all remodeled,” Grace Tutak said, adding that all of the equipment has been replaced, as well. “The theme is home.”
Although the interior may look different, the couple plans to emulate the Best Bagels menu.
“Everything is going to be the same and more,” Grace Tutak said. Bagels will still be made fresh daily in-house and the hours will be the same, but now Italian meatballs and sauce will be on the menu.
“We are just waiting on a final inspection, which we can’t get until (Robinson) sends workers to fix the ceilings in the kitchens that were ripped out when the (previous) equipment was gutted,” she added.
“There were holes in the ceiling area,” Robinson said. “(We’re) going to fill them back in, put in a new ceiling grid, add tiles.”
Then the space will be ready for opening — and not a minute too soon for Grace Tutak.
Almost every day, she added, people come to the restaurant to eat while she’s setting up, and she has to turn them away.
“And it kills me!” she said. “Because that’s my passion, to feed people when they’re hungry. … I hope they all come back!”
Grace’s Place will be the Tutaks’ first restaurant. Call 283-5686.
