by Carl Corry |
Prepare for a new cool delight in downtown Patchogue.
The village Planning Board gave its blessing Tuesday night to a plan for an Eastern fusion dessert bar featuring Thai rolled ice cream and homemade desserts.
It will be called Bar A Dessert.
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The spot will replace the former Mother’s Movies location at 38 South Ocean Avenue, which Patchogue planning and zoning coordinator Carol Giglio said had been closed for at least six months.
The business is the work of Lin Wang, 32, of Patchogue, who also owns 360 Taiko Sushi across the street, and partner Junggle Fu, 30, of Flushing, Queens.
The two have been friends for about four years. This will be the first venture for Fu. His family has a similar shop in China, he said.
He was also inspired by a number of visits to Thailand.
“I wanted to bring some Thai desserts here. That’s why I created this idea,” Fu said.
“Everything is homemade,” Wang explained of Bar A Dessert’s planned offerings.
He said they decided on the venue’s name because it’s small space at 750 square feet. And, patrons get to see the ice cream being mixed over a metal table, frozen to minus 5 degrees, chopped, spread and rolled in an open-bar atmosphere until it’s ready to be devoured.
Some on the Planning Board admitted they were already salivating over the planned menu items.
Options include a chocolate green tea lava cake, banana chouff, chocolate forest and coconut monkey bread.
The 17-seat store will also have gluten-free options and a selection of coffee specials. It will be open from 11 a.m to 11 p.m.
After adding bifold front doors, a glass door entrance in the rear, and livening up the interior with Fu’s artistic touch — he is a muralist who graduated with a graphic arts degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York — Wang said he hopes to open by early- to mid-August.
Fu said he is considering renting a house nearby so he doesn’t have to commute every day from Flushing.
Wang, who was praised by Planning Board chairman John Rocco on the success and maintenance of 360 Taiko, which opened in 2015, said he anticipates locals will scream for rollup Thai ice cream.
“In Patchogue, people love dessert.”
Photo Caption: Lin Wang and Junggle Fu outside their future Bar A Dessert location. (Credit: Carl Corry)
Carl Corry is a longtime Long Island journalist. You can find him covering everything from food to local history. He recently earned a master’s degree in communications from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and was inducted into the Long Island Journalism Hall of Fame — Contributor Wing.
