The restaurant will accommodate 47 people and will offer a German-influenced menu with a full breakfast and four-course dinner. A dining room wing is on each side of the bar, with a fireplace in each one. Just inside is a combination bar-front desk and staircase leading to the second the third floors. Patrons will enter through the front door just off a 19-space parking lot. "We're going to treat you like a houseguest." "You're walking into our house, literally," he continued. "What we're trying to create," explained Jonathan, who celebrated his 42nd birthday yesterday, "is when you walk into this place, you're taking a trip back in time to when things were more gentle, more simple." The Krachs intend to do their part to offer an upscale destination, while maintaining a friendly, intimate atmosphere. The people know they need some high-end restaurants here." "I think it's a town that has a real vision for its future. "They say this is the 'Eye of the Commonweath'" Krach said, referring to the slogan attached to signs at each town line. The town, he said, seems ripe to support a unique venture. He said he has already sold several gift certificates and has fielded telephone calls seeking reservations at the inn. There has already been a marked show of interest in the new restaurant, said Jonathan, who will serve as chef. The Krachs are hoping their "intimate, petite European-style hotel," with about 20 rooms and seven baths on three floors, will complement the nearby Southbridge Hotel and Conference Center, which offers 203 guestrooms. When it opens, local economic planners are hoping Vienna will enhance an ongoing downtown revitalization effort that has included luring new businesses and attracting visitors from other communities. "We'll definitely open before Valentine's Day," Lisa said. The process, which has included securing the necessary local permits and variances, started last January, and while some work remains - the family will continue to add antiques to the dicor, for example - the Krachs expect to open the dining room and three suites early next month. The former owners, Gabriel McCarthy and Margaret Morrissey, renovated the former eight-family tenement before selling it. Having picked a name, the Krachs set about converting the single-family home, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, into a restaurant and bed and breakfast inn. He has spent time in the Austrian city since childhood, and both he and Lisa have also traveled there. "We said, 'Well, that's definitely got to be it.'"Īctually, the name had its roots more in Jonathan's family, which hails from outside Vienna. Krach, 36, said yesterday inside what will be the family's new home and business at the intersection of Main and South streets. Town fathers had been considering alternatives. They learned that the town, established in 1816, almost was not named Southbridge. If he and his wife, Lisa, needed any further convincing, it came in the form of an eerie coincidence after they decided to call the restaurant Vienna. His first impression of the sprawling, Victorian-style historical building at 14 South St., Southbridge was enough to convince Jonathan S. Reprinted from the Southbridge Evening News New Bed & Breakfast To Open Next Month In Southbridgeīy Walter Bird Jr.- The News Staff Writer The chief estimated about $50,000 to $75,000 worth of damage.įirefighters cleared the area around 11:30 p.m.Still not convinced? Read what others have said about Vienna! There was some fire extension to another room, and there was smoke and heat damage throughout the building. The state fire marshal's office is assisting with the investigation. Firefighters and investigators remained at the scene investigating and checking for fire extension and hot spots.Ĭhief DiFronzo said three alarms were struck, bringing in extra personnel and equipment from Charlton, Sturbridge, Webster EMS, and Webster Fire, along with the Muddy Brook Department out of Woodstock, Conn. They were able to quickly knock down the fire, and kept it to the parlor-style room where it started. The chief said arriving firefighters found fire coming out of a room on the first floor of the building at 14 South St. No firefighters were injured in the blaze, which was first reported around 6:50 p.m. SOUTHBRIDGE - A three-alarm fire damaged the Vienna Restaurant and Historic Inn, Friday night.įire Chief Mark DiFronzo said two people inside at the time of the fire, along with the owner's wife, were taken to a local hospital to get checked as a precaution.
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