Owners of the popular Vietnamese restaurant Cong Tu Bot on Washington Avenue in Portland plan to open a new eatery in the Old Port by the end of the year.
Chef and co-owner Vien Dobui said they leased the space at 30 Market St., formerly home of Pat’s Pizza, which closed in early April. Dobui said his new restaurant will be called Lido’s 2, a reference to a former nightclub he frequented some years ago when he lived in San Jose, California.
The new space will seat as many as 70 people, considerably more than the 40-seat Cong Tu Bot, which in March became the state’s first independent unionized restaurant in more than 40 years. The larger venue, located in the bustling Old Port, “will allow us to reach a bigger audience,” Dobui said, noting that the space also will have a full bar.
The transaction was brokered by Peter Harrington of Malone Commercial Brokers.
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