Louie's Old Mill, an Italian BYOB, opens in Hatboro
Italian restaurant's specialties are traditional dishes and mammoth desserts.
Brooklyn-bred Louie Zweifach is the Louie behind Louie's Old Mill, a revamp of Hatboro's landmark Old Mill Inn at Horsham and York Roads.
The Italian BYOB - whose specialties are red-gravy dishes (lasagna, meatballs, clams oreganata) and mammoth desserts (milkshakes, sundaes, cannoli) - is to premiere July 19. It will serve dinner initially; private events will follow later this summer.
The interior is billed as flood-tolerant, as Pennypack Creek has shown up regularly at the Old Mill Inn. When husband-and-wife builders/developers Lynda Clauser and Jim Case bought the inn in 2013, they stripped the building to its bones and removed drywall and woodwork on the ground floor. They left the 14-inch-square columns, the original yellow pine beams intact, the additional steel support added through the years. All hardwood floors were refinished on the second and third floors, and they had the first floor peeled down to the original stone, stucco, and concrete.
Zweifach, 48, previously was chef/owner of the Meatball Room in Boca Raton, Fla. Menu is here.
Hours are 4 to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 4 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 to 9 p.m. Sunday.