New owners have plans for the long-standing building that used to house the Perch 55 bar in Donnelly.
Teri Lynn Patten is opening The Roost, a restaurant and bar at 256 Main St. Patten tells BoiseDev she has worked in or around restaurants her entire life, but this is her first endeavor as an owner.
She came up with the name after seeing a rooster sitting at her cousin’s table.
“It’s casual, it’s fun, it’s easygoing,” Patten said. “We were going to call it the rooster tail and play off of that, but I’m like, everybody’s gonna just call it The Roost.”
Menu and building changes for The Roost
Though the Roost will still serve alcohol-like Perch 55, it will also have more of a restaurant feel. The menu will feature items such as calamari strips, gourmet sandwiches, steaks for dinner, and breakfast on Sundays.
“The chef that is helping me with this has a lot of experience with good sauces and stuff like that,” Patten said. “So it’s going to have a little different flair with some of the things with the different sauces he’s learned to create. It’s not going to be real fancy…but we still want to have good food.”
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Terri’s husband, Micheal Patten, is working on remodeling the inside. He has textured and repainted the walls, redid the flooring, and changed the lighting. Though Patten says they chose to leave some of the old decorations up.
“I mean, there’s a lot of the old characteristic stuff we left here because…it’s been around forever and we didn’t just wipe out the old character because we liked it,” she said. “(It) needed some lipstick, it needed some updating.”
Patten said business hours may be adjusted, but right now she is “shooting” to close at 10 p.m. on the weekdays and midnight on the weekends.
The Roost does not have an official opening date yet, but Patten hopes to have it up and running in the next couple of weeks.
“I’m really excited about the venture,” she said. “I have a lot of awesome people hired… It’s been just an adventure from the get-go.”
To check out the menu, click here.
