AUDIO TRANSCRIPT: Sassy-Cuse Saloon brought the sass to downtown dining week
Grace Bartels: Sassy-Cuse Saloon located in the heart of Downtown Syracuse brings a new environment to dining week. Just up a few steps, you get good music, good food, and a whole lot of Sal’s Birdland Sassy Sauce.
Rob Bidwell: Not very many times you can go to a restaurant and enjoy the sauce and then turn around and go to Wegmans or Walmart to buy the sauce that’s on the shelves.
Bartels: Owner Robb Bidwell says the saloon is something special.
Bidwell: It’s a unique concept with the seasonings and the sauces, and we hope that it will do very well.
Bartels: Over 40 restaurants participate in the event alongside Sassy-Cuse. Customers like Sophia Hoyos-Murray love the community feel.
Sophia Hoyos-Murray: I definitely do think there’s like an emphasis on local businesses, which I really love especially as someone who’s not from here.
Bartels: Restaurant goers can enjoy dining week specials until March 14. Grace Bartels, NCC News.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC NEWS) — Sassy sauce has just been added to downtown Syracuse’s dining week menu with its newest eatery option.
Sassy-Cuse Saloon, formerly the Clinton St. Pub, is participating in its first ever Downtown Syracuse Dining Week, a 14-day event with over 40 restaurants that feature two-course lunches or three-course dinners.
Robb Bidwell, co-owner of Sassy-Cuse Saloon, is quite familiar with the crowd he expects to come through the doors for the next 11 days. He formerly owned and operated the establishment that came before the saloon, Clinton St. Pub.
“We are becoming more of a restaurant and more laid back with a country and classic rock theme.” Bidwell said.
What’s even more exciting about the revamped restaurant? What it brings to the table. Sassy-Cuse Saloon gets its name from Sal’s Birdland Sassy Sauce, the not-so secret ingredient featured in many of the menu items and also available for sale by the bottle.
“Not very many times you can go to a restaurant and enjoy the sauce and then turn around and go to Wegmans or Walmart to buy the sauce that’s on the shelves.” Bidwell added.
Sassy sauce is not the only new addition to the downtown spot. So, for customers who may wonder what else is new about Sassy-Cuse, Bidwell shared how he’s incorporating a familiar downtown favorite at his new place.
“We’re hosting Modern Malt brunch on Friday, Saturday, Sundays, and what we’re trying to do is produce a brunch just like we did at Modern Malt, and we did very well down there and we’re hoping that customers come from CSP [Clinton St. Pub], Modern Malt to see the new Sassy-Cuse.” Bidwell said about his expectations for dining week.
Modern Malt was one of Bidwell’s former restaurants that hosted a fan favorite brunch every weekend. He’s implementing it now at Sassy-Cuse, hoping to draw that old crowd, and then some.
Dining week occurs every year in Downtown Syracuse with restaurants like Sassy-Cuse, and many more that feature existing and new items on their dining week deal menus.
Dining week goer, Sophia Hoyos-Murray, had family visiting and chose a restaurant that happened to be a participant in the event.
“I think it’s nice that we were able to have an evening out together and at such an affordable price.” Hoyos-Murray said.
Downtown Syracuse will continue this eatery extravaganza through March 14.