![]() “Now, there’s new electric, plumbing and septic, and the HVAC has been completely restored, plus a new roof,” Bondowski said. “There are hooks for coats on the side of the booths and hooks under the tables for purses, too.”īondowski said it has definitely been a process, as the floors and the front door are the originals from the 1900s. “My mom and fiancée did all the painting and reupholstering here,” he said. He is now just waiting on the front door glass and the awning for his restaurant to be complete. “It took over 40 days to redo the floors since there was about three layers of laminate and 10 layers of paint.” “The toughest part of getting the restaurant ready to open has been restoring the entire building,” Reed said. Reed said his sister-in-law is the general manager of Rails Craft Brew and Eatery in the downtown and has been helping him, so everybody has been pulling together and giving him ideas. “The mayor wanted to come over and take a look at the restaurant, and Shawn Malone from Brooklyn Pizza was here last night.” “I couldn’t believe it has come together the way it has, and everybody has been calling me,” Reed said. Karen said she will be a waitress and help with pretty much everything, including making coleslaw, at her son’s steakhouse. ![]() Reed has eight employees for his eatery, including his mother, sister, April Reed, and fiancée. So after I get off work every day, I’ll be coming over here until 9 p.m. “I’ve been at Valeo for 16 years, and I’m hoping to work there until I retire. “Now, I’ve got a chef doing it and will be there right on the side,” Reed said. He said there is a lake out by his house where they have cooked all kinds of food for a lot of people at Fourth of July celebrations, and everyone tells him he is the man over the grill. “I make my own in-house marinade and pork chop marinade, and everybody just fell in love with it.” “I’m pretty picky about a steak, and none of them touches ours,” Reed said. Elmo Steak House and has eaten at some of the best steak restaurants. Reed said he has been to Ruth’s Chris Steak House and St. “So with my experience and his knowledge, we wanted to turn things over, start a new business and give people something to talk about and actually enjoy.” “What brought me back here was Josh said he had a killer idea and that this town had never seen a good steakhouse,” he said. Technically, Bondowski lives in Clearspring, but he said he has been in and out of Seymour since March. “I’ve lived in Louisville, California and was in Colorado for over a year and did some work in Florida earlier this year and just do a lot of traveling.” “I was born in Seymour, but I’ve moved pretty much every six to nine months my whole life,” Bondowski said. The head chef of Reed’s Place, Steven Bondowski, has been best friends with Reed for 25 years. Most of Reed’s friends own restaurants, are general managers of restaurants or are chefs, he said. Reed and his fiancée, Jenny Ogle, saw an opportunity when they learned a building was for sale downtown. “He owned a construction company for over 30 years and was a carpenter.” “My dad wasn’t in the restaurant business, though,” Reed said. Reed’s mother, Karen Reed, said a restaurant was a dream of her late husband, and he would have been very proud of Josh’s new steakhouse. Chestnut St., Seymour, which is having its grand opening from 11 a.m. That was the inspiration behind Reed’s Place: Steak and Chop Shop, 224 S. “We’d try to figure out what we could put together.” “We used to go to all of the Oktoberfests and see all of the people lined up for steak tips and pork chops,” he said. Click here to purchase photos from this gallery Seymour resident Josh Reed said the opening of his new steakhouse would have made his father, Mike Reed, very happy. Lori McDonaldĪ lifelong dream has finally been realized for a local restaurant owner. Chestnut St., Seymour, will have its grand opening Wednesday. Reed's Place: Steak and Chop Shop, 224 S. ![]() A new restaurant will be opening this week in downtown Seymour.
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