The wait is over!  A café in the Armory Arts District is now a reality!

The wait is over!  A café in the Armory Arts District is now a reality!

Mad Dog Café on the Blackstone… is now open! It is a café where friends and neighbors will gather, quality coffee and tea (Mem Teas of Boston) will be enjoyed and light breakfasts and lunches will be served.  Mad Dog Café features locally roasted coffee (Updike's Newtowne Coffee of North Kingston), light breakfast fare and wholesome lunches.   The full menu including espresso drinks, fine teas, "hand carved" specialty sandwiches, salads and attitude-changing soups and chowders is now available.

The atmosphere is welcoming, fresh and comfortable.  You will want to linger.  The café's beautiful lighting has been designed and created by our neighbor, Tracy Glover Lighting (59 Blackstone Ave).  A one hundred and fifty year old Maine wagon wheel is the foundation piece of the unique chandelier over the fireplace. The coffee bar was built using re-purposed one hundred year old fir bead board from the original business at our café's site.  The "Director's Room" and kitchen floor was prepared by DaSilva Flooring of Pawtucket (Central Ave).

Yes, the art you see in the café is for sale and was created by one of the more than forty artists working upstairs at Mad Dog Artist Studios. If you have any questions about Mad Dog Artist Studios... just ask.

Located on the ground floor in the same building as our Mad Dog Artist Studios & Gallery,  Mad Dog Café has a mid-century industrial / contemporary look of dark woods, chrome, galvanized steel, original red brick, highlighted with a fireplace and comfortable seating.  The café will have both indoor and outdoor (deck) seating (Summer 2017), plenty of off-street parking (corner of Front Street and Blackstone Ave) and wi-fi.

Our goal is to provide this growing art district with a "neighborhood kitchen table and living room".  Take a step forward with us... into our past.  Let's build a neighborhood that we all will feel welcome and "at home" in. 

Hours are 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM, Monday through Friday.  Come in and say hi to me, as well as Julia and Sophie!

                                                                                                                                        Christina Quattrucci