PORT ANGELES — There is the same Cafe Vida coffee and Oven Spoonful cookies and scones that the coffee shop at 110 E. First St., served last week.
The shop now offers soups, sandwiches, salads and calzones.
And the name has changed.
The Itty Bitty Buzz closed in the space April 2.
The Oven Spoonful opened there two days ago.
“Miraculously enough,” said Dave Long, chef and owner of the Oven Spoonful, on Tuesday, “best-case scenarios do occur.”
On Friday, he had said that he and his wife, Karen Long, hoped to reopen the shop this week, perhaps as early as Monday.
They threw open the doors at a little after 7 a.m. Monday, he said, and plan to be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week.
The coffee shop was busy Tuesday after having had an “average day” Monday.
“I guess they were getting used to our being open,” Long said.
Expanded menu
The menu has expanded from what was offered when the place was owned by Deb Ferguson of Sequim, who closed it a day before she closed The Buzz in Sequim.
Now it offers more than sweets for those looking for a meal rather than just a snack.
All the production for the Oven Spoonful, a catering company that offers everything from ethnic food to baked goods, had been at the Front Street location for the past five years, Long said, so it was a “natural progression” to take it over and expand the choices.
He said Friday that he and his wife had been in negotiations with Ferguson for about a week.
He hired back the four baristas who had worked at the Itty Bitty Buzz.
The place still offers Wi-Fi and displays art on the walls.
“We’ve had a lot of people support us,” Dave Long said Tuesday.
“We’re really grateful for that.”
For more information about the Oven Spoonful, visit www.ovenspoonful.com.
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