Category Archives: New Businesses

The Night Owl, a new cocktail and dance concept, is slated to open in downtown Saratoga Springs at 17 Maple Ave. in early October.
After two and a half years, the Sinclair Saratoga has sold to Matt Pedersen, who will oversee the new club.
The Sinclair will remain open for the remainder of the summer. The property will begin the changeover process after Labor Day weekend and will continue to be open through the remodel phase.

By Jill Nagy
Galway Rock Vineyard and Winery in Ballston Lake opened a new tasting room in June.
About 300 people attended, according to Kate Taylor, one of the owners of the business.
The winery was started in 2014 in Taylor’s parents’ garage in Galway. At the time, it was only a production facility. The wines were sold at liquor stores and farmers’ markets. Taylor and her husband, Ryan Taylor, and her father, Vincent Soldani Jr., started the business and still operate it.

By Jill Nagy
In a shop on the lower level of the Saratoga Marketplace on Broadway in Saratoga Springs, Liam Rice sells simple clothing with a lofty purpose.
The shop, Summit Clothing Co., has T-shirts, hoodies and caps and donates 10 percent of all receipts and a portion of monthly profits to The Giving Circle, a Saratoga Springs charity that helps young people in Uganda and other parts of world.

By Susan E. Campbell
Downtown Saratoga will soon have a new restaurant owned and managed by husband-and-wife team Mike and Michelle Spain, two chefs who have been part of the Broadway culinary scene for years.
Named Seneca, the restaurant is taking over 17 Division St., a one-story brick structure that offers the warmth and intimacy that the Spains wanted for their open grill concept, according to Michelle Spain.

By Jill Nagy
Staci Snider has returned to Saratoga Springs and opened a women’s clothing shop at 18 Congress St., featuring her clothing designs.
In back of the shop is an atelier, or design studio, with a seamstress on duty.
The store, called Snider Fashion, stocks several dozen variations on the little black dress, most of them with an easy fit and a somewhat edgy look—a lot of crooked hemlines, but not much decolletage. She also sells jackets, skirts, pants, tops and jumpsuits, and some color, mainly bright primary colors, and some white, even an occasional print fabric.

by Andrea Palmer
Catherine Hover, owner of Saratoga Paint & Sip, has opened a new cafe and shared workspace in the heart of downtown Saratoga Springs.
The Palette Cafe, at 493 Broadway, features co-working space. It serves kru coffee, alcohol beverages, snacks, desserts, meat and cheese plates and the New Orleans specialty doberge cake. The cafe carries specialty doughnuts by Darling Doughnuts.

By Susan E. Campbell
There is a transformation underway at Greenfield’s Brookhaven Golf Course and central to the changes are new owners and a new name for the club’s restaurant, The Full Course.
Tina Pethick has worked in the restaurant business since 1982, including 15 years at Perillos Golf Course near Malta, and had been looking into buying a restaurant for some time.

By Susan E. Campbell
Saving Face barbershop is a recent business addition to West Avenue, one of the growth areas in Saratoga Springs. As new commercial spaces and residential buildings continue to go up and activity on the west side increases, shop manager and master barber Jeremiah Cregan said he is pleased with his location.
“I originally wanted a shop on Broadway in the center of things,” Cregan said. “But as I dove into it I thought, I want to target locals who do not want to worry about traffic in the summer or finding a parking space.“
He narrowed down his choices to a few locations on West Ave, but ultimately the space that Dance Lab had vacated at 68 West Ave. proved to have the amenities he needed.

by Andrea Palmer
Ted’s Fish Fry as opened a new location on Route 9 in Clifton Park.
It is the sixth location for the local chain
Bill Deeb is the general manager of all six locations. The restaurant was started by Deeb’s grandfather and the restaurant’s namesake, Ted Deeb.