TROY — Serial restaurateur Matt Baumgartner, who in 2009 opened the first Wolff's Biergarten as part of the renaissance of Albany's warehouse district and grew it over the next seven years to include locations in Schenectady, Syracuse and Troy, is selling the brand.
Three locations will continue as Wolff's under the new owners, according to the parties involved. Baumgartner is keeping the fourth, at Federal and King streets, across from the end of the Green Island Bridge. He has renamed it Troy Beer Garden and is conducting an extensive interior renovation. Presently closed because of the pandemic, it will open under the new name in mid-March, Baumgartner said, with a menu of small plates and fare similar to what is served at June Farms, the bar, event venue and animal farm in West Sand Lake that Baumgartner opened in 2017.
"June Farms takes up so much of my physical and mental time that I needed fewer other things," said Baumgartner, who in 2017 sold Bombers Burrito Bar 20 years after founding it. He has also opened a variety of other restaurants and bars over the years.
In addition to Troy Beer Garden's revamped food, its 20-tap draft line will switch to an emphasis on local and regional craft beers, and the inside will be more stylish than the rusticity of Wolff's, Baumgartner said. Further, stressing the final word of its name, Troy Beer Garden will offer plants and flowers for sale, some grown at June Farms, and host related classes on Mondays, when it will be closed for regular business.
Projected hours are from 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 11 a.m. on weekends.
In big news for sports fans, the TVs have been removed, to further distance Troy Beer Garden from the soccer-centric identity of Wolff's.
"We don't want to compete with them at all," Baumgartner said.
The Berlin, a stylish cocktail lounge upstairs from Troy Beer Garden, will reopen when the bar does. It will serve on Friday and Saturday nights but otherwise will be reserved for special events, Baumgartner said.
The Wolff's in Albany, Schenectady and Syracuse are being sold to a two-man partnership who are intimately familiar with the brand. The new owners said Thursday they are not ready to go public with their identities, as they have not yet told their current employers of their plans. They said the sale should be finalized in six to seven weeks. According to both sides, the deal calls for the new owners to take over the Albany and Schenectady Wolff's first, followed by Syracuse later this year, with Baumgartner continuing to operate it until then.
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