Multiple Pop-Up Cafés Opening in Downtown Westport

While Bobby Q’s owner Bob LeRose plans to have a Main Street dining section open before the Art About Town festival next Thursday, the owner of Cru, a restaurant underneath the Gap slated to open next month, intends to also be serving food on an outdoor patio in the Parker Harding Plaza by next month.  

The Board of Selectman Wednesday unanimously approved pop-up cafés at both 45 Main Street (Bobby Q’s Barbecue and Grill) and in the back of 125 Main Street in the Parker Harding Plaza (Cru).  

Bobby Q’s pop-up will take up two parking spaces with its 44’ x 6’ dining section on Main street. Cru’s pop-up café will occupy a 12’ x 24’ space in the Parker Harding Plaza. The patio will be similar to the one at Acqua, according to owner Steve Prokop. It will take up three parking spaces and have seating for 24 people, Prokop said.  

LeRose said he spoke to neighboring business owners and that they were excited for the Main Street pop-up café.  

“It should be a pretty nice addition to Main Street,” LeRose said.  

Second Selectwoman Shelly Kassen was very positive about the new cafés.  

“I think the pop-ups have been enormously successful. They make downtown far more interesting,” Kassen said, adding that the cafés will have the added benefit of slowing traffic.