At 27 Cafe on West Bridge Street, the eggs are seasoned and steamed until set. The cheddar mornay goes through a pressurized canister, and the bun is baked in-house every morning. Chronogram wrote that the sandwich "has been thought through with an intensity usually reserved for suspension bridges." It costs $11, or $4 more with tomato-and-tamarind-braised pork belly.
That sandwich went on the menu October 23, and it changes more than one café. The west side of the Uncle Sam Bridge now has a place to sit down and eat a real meal mid-morning. Together with a second coffee counter that opened in September, a bagel shop that unlocks at 6:30 a.m., a tea room, a gallery, a theater and an evening listening room, West Bridge Street can fill a full Catskill day without anyone crossing Catskill Creek.
A day on one street, by the clock
Most Main Street coverage this fall has been about the reconstruction and Friday's ribbon cutting. Across the creek, the street has quietly lined up its hours so they hand off from one business to the next.
| Time | Where | Address | What the posted schedule says |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:30 a.m. weekdays, 7 a.m. weekends | Goodies | 261 W Bridge St | Open until 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Sunday, until 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday |
| Morning | Josie's Coffee Shoppe | 51 W Bridge St | Opened in early September with coffee, lattes and pastries |
| 8 a.m. daily | 27 Cafe | 18 W Bridge St | Open until 3 p.m., with the new food menu since October 23 |
| 11 a.m. Friday through Monday | West Bridge Tea and Art | 25 W Bridge St | Café open until 5 p.m. |
| Evenings, selected dates | 27 Cafe listening room | 18 W Bridge St | 8 p.m. sessions on November 19, November 21 and December 12 |
Bridge Street Theatre at 44 W. Bridge Street and Raphael Moser Gallery at 75 Bridge Street fill in the rest of the day. The theater's visitor page describes it as the big red building about a block from the creek and says there is usually ample free parking behind it in the Catskill High parking lot.
The Goodies owners added a second counter down the hill
The earliest stop and the newest one share owners. Vanessa Piazza and her fiancé Anthony Cunzio took over Goodies, the bagel and deli shop at 261 W Bridge St, before they opened a Catskill location of Josie's Coffee Shoppe, the café Piazza started in Saugerties in 2020. In August, Piazza told NEWS10 that the Catskill shop "wasn't in her career plans." Spending time in the village through Goodies changed her mind.
"There's a lot of growth happening here right now, and it feels like a village that's in this really exciting moment of change while still holding onto so much of its character," she said in the same NEWS10 piece.
Josie's opened at 51 West Bridge Street on a Friday in early September, according to NEWS10's September 8 report. Piazza told the station the space was completely empty when they took it over in March, and that Cunzio did the build-out himself. The Saugerties shop serves breakfast and lunch, but the Catskill location started small with coffee, lattes and pastries. Before it opened, Piazza said the plan was to build the menu out from that limited start, including some items sold only in Catskill, and to let this location develop "its own identity" rather than feel like a "copy and paste."
So the two shops split the morning by format. Goodies has the kettle-boiled bagels, breakfast sandwiches and deli fare that Chronogram described when the shop arrived. Josie's has espresso and pastries a few doors from the creek.
October 23 turned a coffee bar into a kitchen
27 Cafe opened at 18 West Bridge Street in September 2025 as a coffee shop. Owner Grace Brannigan had spent years in professional kitchens, including Lil' Deb's Oasis, West Taghkanic Diner and The Hereafter in Hudson. Chronogram reported that Brannigan picked a coffee shop because it meant fewer moving parts. With the new menu, they "appear to be running a restaurant again."
Brannigan told Chronogram the reason was money: "We don't have enough of it. We need more of it." Careful pourover doesn't sell in big cheap volumes, and food gives people another reason to come in. Brannigan waited until they found a cook whose food excited them. That cook is Morgan Brill, who has worked at Mirador and Chleo in Kingston and was a sous chef at Manor Rock in Hudson. Brannigan had followed her pop-ups before hiring her.
Chronogram lists these dishes and prices on the new menu:
- Griddled cornmeal crumpet with carrot shito butter and an herb salad, $12
- Potato mochi waffle, $9
- Black rice porridge with sweet potato, puffed grains and coconut, and sesame coconut milk, $13
- Cabbage and smoked trout salad with white poppy vinaigrette, a soft-boiled quail egg and pickled wax bean, $14
- Chou kuku, an herb omelette with charred cabbage and beet yogurt, wrapped in cabbage and cut into wedges, $10
- Malted banana d'orzo cookie, $5.50, and a chocolate-and-lemon-curd bun, $7
The chou kuku replaces the store-bought quiche the café used to sell, and breads and pastries are now made in-house. Pourovers cost $6.75 to $10, with coffee from roasters including SEY, Luna, Helm and Prodigal. Prices on both menus include wages, so tipping isn't expected. Natural wine is available during the day on request.
There is also a small link to Hudson's restaurant history in the kitchen. Following Lil' Deb's recent closing, Chronogram reported, Brannigan bought equipment from their former workplace, including a blender they once used there.
Afternoons go to tea, and November 7 to the gallery
The café crowd thins out after 3 p.m., when 27 closes. West Bridge Tea and Art at 25 West Bridge Street runs on a different schedule, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Monday. It serves tea, coffee and gluten-free baked goods, and pairs the café with a community art studio. Its website promises 100+ teas. On the four days it's open, it covers the late-afternoon stretch the earlier shops leave behind.
On Saturday, November 7, Raphael Moser Gallery at 75 Bridge Street opens "In the Wake of the Sublime" with a free reception from 2 to 5 p.m. Bassist Michael Bisio performs at 3 p.m. The artists are Henry Crawley, Daniella Dooling, Ginnie Peterson, Wayne Toepp, Susan Wides and Robbie Wing, and the show runs through December 5, according to the Great Northern Catskills listing. The gallery describes its focus as contemporary art and performance.
The reception runs during 27's open hours, so a crumpet at 1 p.m. and the Bisio set at 3 p.m. fit in one walk. The evening before, Friday, November 6, is a First Friday, which the county tourism calendar lists across both Main and Bridge Streets. The next one after that falls on December 4.
After dark, the listening room takes over
Brannigan built 27's listening room with plush red seating and towering speakers. Chronogram reported that Brannigan loves recorded music but finds concerts overwhelming, and wanted a place to hear records among other people without going to a show. Guests can read, talk, eat or just sit while the music plays.
On selected nights the room stays open past the café's regular 3 p.m. close. 27 Cafe's calendar lists three 8 p.m. programs before the end of the year:
- Thursday, November 19. A listening session of composer Chantal Michelle's new LP Unit of Heart, with live sets from Grace Villamil, December and Bryce Hackford.
- Saturday, November 21. Ashcan Orchestra, a revolving ensemble that plays homemade instruments, with a duo set from Morgan Evans-Weiler and J.P.A. Falzone and a live video performance by Les LeVeque.
- Saturday, December 12. Erica Dawn Lyle, the writer and experimental musician who once toured as Bikini Kill's guitarist, alongside Jacqui Cornetta, whose recent sets combine electronics and harp.
Two of those nights are Saturdays. If you're coming from the Main Street side, the route is the one Bridge Street Theatre gives its audiences: turn at the Bridge Street light and cross the Uncle Sam Bridge over Catskill Creek.
At CENTURY 21 New West Properties, we keep track of which streets in the village are adding new hours, because that changes how a home on either side of the creek fits into daily life. If you own a home near West Bridge Street or Main Street and wonder how this fall's openings might affect its value, request a free property valuation and Natasha Witka's team will walk you through it.
