Report: Siro’s reopening July 14
Details scant as new management team takes over Spa fixture
Siro’s restaurant, a trackseason fixture since 1945, will reopen on July 14 under the fifth management team in a decade.
That night it will host the annual Siro’s Cup benefit in its backyard, as it traditionally has on the night before the season starts at Saratoga Race Course.
The dining room also will open that night for regular service, according to a story on Saratoga Report.
A chef and kitchen crew from South Carolina are being brought in, and 30-year maitre d’ Michael Stone is back, according to the story, which says the food will be “a combination steakhouse and upscale dining.” I have not yet independently confirmed the details.
More when I know it about days/hours/menus. I’m not immediately finding a website, and
Siro’s Facebook page is four years out of date.
During last year’s pandemic summer, Siro’s tried to operate as a membership club for a few weeks, but the city shuttered it in mid-august when officials discovered that the business’ operator, Scott Solomon, had falsified paperwork necessary for a restaurant permit. Solomon was arrested on four felonies two months ago in connection with the fake documents for Siro’s.
A partner in the former Saratoga restaurants Mingle on the Avenue and Pig n’ Whistle, Solomon was also arrested last September for allegedly stealing from the campaign of Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan when he worked for it as a fundraising consultant in 2017. Solomon first became involved with Siro’s in 2019, when he leased the business from new owners and ran it for the season with veteran area chef David Britton in the kitchen.
Those new owners from two years ago are the father-son team of Peter and Jake Spitalny, who in 2017 bought and overhauled the Lake George Beach Club in Lake George. Peter Spitalny’s main business is Stein Fibers of Colonie. They purchased Siro’s in summer 2019 from an investment group headed by Manhattan banker Keith Kantrowitz.
That group owned Siro’s for nine racing seasons; in 2015 and 2016, it was run under contract by the New York City steakhouse Hunt & Fish Club, but for the next two summers it was again under the command of veteran chef Tom Dillon, who owned it for about 25 years prior to the investment group’s 2010 purchase.