MANSFIELD — A new restaurant will soon open on Lexington Avenue, promising good food, service and entertainment.
Shelli Street, owner of the Falcon Room Supper Room Club and Lounge is excited to open her restaurant, April 1. Previously, Street was a bartender at Adam’s Other Rib — the former business which occupied the space three years ago.
“I worked here the last four months it was open, and then it closed up,” she said. “There are a lot of people in the neighborhood that (consider) this (place) like ‘Cheers.’ ”
The menu will feature steak, seafood, and pasta, Street said.
“My chef is awesome. We have worked together in the past, and my staff is really what is going to make this place because we have all worked together before,” she said. “We’re excited because it is going to be something different. The staff is what will really bring this place to life.”
Street said she wanted to purchase the 777 Lexington Ave. location as it was closing, but the opportunity wasn’t available at that time.
“My teaching license expires soon, the opportunity was here, I didn’t have a lot of money, and so I went and found it. I decided this was it,” she said of factors leading to being able to purchase the property. “I have been raising kids for 30 years, I have been working in restaurants for 35 and I teach full-time.
“This to me is my fun, and I’ve always made money doing it. I have worked all over Mansfield, so I have staff from all over Mansfield. We’ve all worked together before.”
Street said she expects to have live entertainment on a regular basis.
“I love music. We may have a lounge singer one night and we may have a jazz band the next night, then we might have a pop band,” she said. “I will probably be all over the place with it.” `
Street said she has heard the public’s worries concerning the Falcon Room Supper Club would be snobby.
“We want classy but classic, not elegant, fancy and pretentious,” she said. “We want good food, good service, good entertainment. Pricing, I know it was very high before. It won’t be what it was before.”
The Falcon Room Supper Club gets its name from Mansfield history, Street said.
“This is a very different building for a restaurant to be in, I think,” she said. “The clientele has been coming in for a very long time, and they are all from the area. I sat myself down and said, ‘what is the area about?’
“When I started to think about Richland history and Mansfield history, the Malabar Falcons kept coming to mind.”
When Malabar High School and Mansfield Senior merged, the Tyger mascot was kept, and only Malabar’s brown and orange colors remained.
“The Falcon Room just fit. It fit the area,” Street said.
