Zapoteca owners plan 'dream project' for Kennebunk
The owners of Portland’s Zapoteca will convert a 6,000-square-foot building in Kennebunk to a multi-tiered culinary project slated for June.
Shannon and Tom Bard, who live in Kennebunk, have wanted to open a venue there for years, but said this location, at 149 Port Road, has the space and rustic charm they were seeking.
“Everything is here. This brought it all together,” Tom Bard told the Bangor Daily News about the property, which had been on the market for two-and-a-half years.
It will house a new Spanish restaurant named Toroso, a ground-floor venue called Salud Bistro, a cooking school, market and catering company on several floors. The couple has already begun gathering material for a hand-pegged, post-and-beam barn behind the main building that will serve as an events hall.
There will even be apartments for visiting chefs.
“This is my dream project,” said Shannon.
The Bards plan on keeping the restaurant open year-round in order to draw in locals, which in turn could help bring the tourists the area is known for into the eatery.
“We are catering to locals. And tourists want to be where the locals are,” Shannon Bard told the BDN.
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