Folio will open adjoining to the Boston Athenaeum this summer time

Eating places

The cafe and restaurant will open in August.

While you’re shopping titles within the Boston Athenaeum, a historic impartial library, museum, and cultural middle, there might be a brand new spot which you could cease by for a chunk to eat.

Modeled after a European-style cafe and restaurant, Folio will open on Beacon Road this August. Will probably be the newest venture from The Catered Affair, an occasion catering firm that additionally operates eating experiences in elegant venues, such because the Boston Public Library‘s Map Room Tea Lounge and areas in The Institute for Modern Artwork and The Harvard Artwork Museums. This new vacation spot might be a cross between a restaurant you would possibly discover in a museum and a superb eating restaurant, in response to Ken Barrett-Candy, vice chairman of catering.

“A majority of the meals picks are shareable bites,” Barrett-Candy mentioned. “It’s all desk served, with fairly a little bit of thought going into the expertise.”

The preparation of dishes and drinks could have interactive parts, he defined, in order that patrons can take part in “their very own journeys.” When some cocktails are created, diners will get to decide on a kind of wooden to smoke into the drinks, for aroma and taste. With objects like soups, there might be a cracker that the visitor would hit with a mallet earlier than they benefit from the meal.

The menu will embody dishes like a relaxing asparagus, pea, and basil soup, and meat pies from Suya Joint. Visitors may also get pleasure from café gourmand, 4 mignardises with a alternative of espresso or tea.

Folio will be capable of seat 42 company, with a bar and an open-kitchen eating expertise. The area itself might be adorned with heat, wealthy hues, that includes deep hunter inexperienced tones, whereas additionally exhibiting off vibrant orange and yellow accents. Barrett-Candy mentioned that he hopes the cafe and restaurant will entice prospects from the Monetary District and Authorities Middle, in addition to vacationers who frequent the realm.

“It’s very typical of a European cafe,” Barrett-Candy mentioned. “It’s spacious sufficient that everybody is a part of the celebration.”

The brand new spot represents an evolution in The Catered Affair’s method to hospitality in Boston. Lots of the venues that The Catered Affair companies have comparable scorching beverage packages and pastry choices. The Catered Affair continues to attempt to work with small batch makers and minority-owned companies. Barrett-Candy mentioned that he sees Folio as most immediately being a development from the Map Room Tea Lounge, a heat area the place individuals can get pleasure from drinks and bites.

“We’re the place that you simply come to after work — cocktails and bites, and you then’re going in your method,” Barrett-Candy mentioned. “Or theater — you come right here, do your pre-theater, and you then go in your method.”

Folio, 14A Beacon St., Boston