TROY — Finn’s, a River Street restaurant featuring creative shareable plates and smaller selections of sandwiches and entrees, will open Thursday.
The location is 40 River St., a former garage that was renovated to become an Italian restaurant called Zio’s at the Trolley Stop, but the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 scuttled the project.
The owners of Finn’s are Joe and Kelly Proctor, the husband-and-wife team behind the restaurants The Daisy Bar + Tacos in Cohoes and Frankie Bird, located about four blocks from Finn’s in Troy.
Kitchen hours for the opening weeks are 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, bar open an hour later. Sunday-evening service will be added as summer approaches, according to Kelly Proctor.
The menu includes duck-fat tater tots with Gruyere fondue; stracciatella with oranges, olives and onions; Ora King salmon crudo; wood-grilled oysters; mushroom French dip sandwich; cottage pie with braised ox cheek; and lobster tagliatelle. The restaurant has a full liquor license, with what Kelly Proctor describes as “modern classic cocktails,” about a half-dozen wines by the glass and a draft line.
The interior, with a garage door to outside, has an industrial feel, open kitchen, a bar that seats more than a dozen, a series of four-seat high-top tables and a pool table. Joe Proctor describes is as “somewhere everyone can be comfortable and find something they love to eat.”
Joe’s first venture as a proprietor was a 2016 lobster shack inside the former Troy Kitchen food court. The couple together opened a gastropub called Caskade Kitchen & Bar on Remsen Street in Cohoes in January 2018. The Daisy followed in Troy in fall 2019, but pandemic disruptions prompted the Proctors to turn Caskade into a second Daisy location because of the takeout-friendliness of tacos, and a tacos…
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