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Last edited 11:51 a.m., May 4, 2021
Less than a year after opening inside a downtown bar, a sandwich eatery is on the move.
Secret Sandwich Shop LLC is temporarily closed after its May 2 exit from Sweet Boy’s Neighborhood Bar, 310 South Ave. However, owner Mack Musgrave said a reopening for the shop is targeted in the next couple of weeks at its new home at 208 W. McDaniel St. The restaurant is roughly a minute’s walk from Sweet Boy’s.
“With the amount of room we were slowly but surely using and how often we were running out of product, that’s what sped it up,” Musgrave said of moving out of Sweet Boy’s, where he opened the restaurant in July – one month after the bar’s debut.
Secret Sandwich fills around 800 square feet of space formerly occupied by Slider’s, which shuttered last spring, he said. With the move, the restaurant doubles the footprint it had at Sweet Boy’s.
Musgrave said the decision to move also was spurred when friends Clayton and Anne Baker approached him about leasing space in the McDaniel Street building they purchased last year. The Bakers are co-owners of downtown’s Civil Kitchen, Finnegan’s Wake and Tinga Tacos.
“It all just kind of fell together about as well as it could,” Musgrave said, declining to disclose lease terms with the Bakers or relocation costs. “I do love downtown, which is a big reason that building is appealing to me.”
The five-employee shop serves up sandwiches, such as a vegan chicken parmesan and the Eurbano with mojo pork, house-made terrine, prosciutto and swiss. Musgrave said the added kitchen and storage space will allow the menu to be less rotational than it was at Sweet Boy’s. He’s expecting up to 12 sandwiches to be regularly available in addition to a kid’s menu.
“We’ll definitely still have daily specials, but we’ll have a more set menu weekly,” he said, noting the restaurant also will have nonalcoholic beverages and a walk-up window.
Exiting Sweet Boy’s was inevitable, Musgrave said, but added it came quicker than he anticipated.
“The guys over at Sweet Boy’s were all very kind to us,” he said.
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