Jeff Daniels is opening a new restaurant, event space in Chelsea

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Michigan actor Jeff Daniels is opening a brand new restaurant in downtown Chelsea, simply steps from his iconic Purple Rose Theater.

JD’s Stage Bistro is beneath building at 117½ S. Primary St., under the Chelsea Bakery and adjoining 115-119 Primary St. companies, and throughout the road from The Widespread Grill. The restaurant’s Primary Road entrance is shared with the bakery, 117 Primary St., and a second entrance faces the Purple Rose Theater, a restaurant spokesperson instructed the Free Press on Thursday, Nov. 20. The restaurant is anticipated to open in spring 2026, the restaurant spokesperson stated. website.

The restaurant seats 100 and incorporates a wood-fired pizza oven, cocktail bar, patio seating and personal occasion areas for “small to medium neighborhood gatherings and personal events,” in line with the restaurant. website.

Chef Nate Wegryn will current an impressed up to date menu, in collaboration with many native farmers and suppliers. Wegryn beforehand labored at Echelon Kitchen, a restaurant that opened in Ann Arbor earlier this yr, and at The Dixboro Venture, which was named No. 3 on the Free Press’s Greatest New Eating places of 2022 record.

Tannin Property Group, a small enterprise in Chelsea since 2005, is working with Daniels, his son Ben and his spouse Amanda on the undertaking. They hope to create “a world-class music venue that might entice native, regional and nationally acknowledged singer-songwriters whereas setting a brand new normal for sound high quality,” in line with JD’s Stage Bistro’s web site.

Tannin has been concerned in a number of renovations on Chelsea’s Primary Road, together with the previous Flint regulation agency that’s the new house for Serendipity Bookstore, the place lots of of locals handed by hundreds of books one after the other down the road. The brand new restaurant is situated on the identical block because the bookstore.

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Free Press workers author Susan Selasky contributed to this report.

Contact Natalie Davies at ndavies@freepress.com.