SUMMERSIDE – After working in the construction industry for 20 years, Michael Perry jumped at the opportunity for a change when his mother, Maxine Casey, asked him to help redevelopment a restaurant with her.
Casey previously owned the Two Sisters Homemade Bakery in Miscouche and has set her sights on the restaurant business, said Perry.
“I’m doing this for my mom. We’re a close family.”
The new eatery, ‘Uncle Mikes On The Water,’ will open on the Summerside boardwalk at Spinnakers Landing, where the The Battered Fish restaurant used to be located, on the Victoria Day long weekend in May. They plan to remain open until November.
The whole building is being renovated, explained Perry.
“We gutted the place. Everything is new.”
The dream for the restaurant, he said, is to bring something different to Summerside.
“Our menu is going to be nothing like anyone else’s.”
Perry and Casey hope to bring live entertainment in once a week and have a barbecue pit on the patio.
The capacity of the building is 40 indoors and 60 to 80 on the patio.
They also plan to cater to local entrepreneurs, explained Perry, adding local business owners will receive a 15 per cent discount any time they eat there.
The menu:
- Foot long hotdogs
- Montreal smoked meat sandwich with 8 oz. meat
- Homemade fish and chips
- Homemade burgers made with all Atlantic beef
- Fresh Halibut