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Level Up Kitchen Library Café at Emma Clark Library
Official ribbon cutting for the new Level Up Kitchen Library Café at Emma Clark took place this past weekend.
The official ribbon cutting for the new Level Up Kitchen Library Café took place on Sunday, January 7, 2023. Library Board members & staff, Chelsea Gomez (café owner), Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich, John Cunniffe (architect), & Thomas Pirraglia (Urban Village Contracting, Inc.) were all in attendance to celebrate the opening.
Library Director Ted Gutmann and Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich both made remarks. Ted Gutmann thanked everyone involved in the entire three-part construction project and remarked, "We stayed open the whole time [during construction]. We didn't have to close...[the cafe] has been open now a few weeks, and it's been very popular with our patrons."
Councilmember Kornreich said, "Seeing the library evolve and meeting the changing needs of the community is very heartening, and this place continues to be very relevant and continues to be the absolute heart of this area."
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Level Up Kitchen is owned and operated by Three Village native and chef Chelsea Gomez. Ms. Gomez graduated from Pennsylvania College of Technology with a degree in Culinary Arts in 2006, and prior to founding Level Up Kitchen Ms. Gomez was Executive Chef at the much-loved Pentimento Restaurant in Stony Brook, which closed in 2021. Ms. Gomez is fully invested in the Three Village community, having grown up in Setauket, and she is currently raising her young family here.
The Emma S. Clark Memorial Library, located at 120 Main Street in Setauket and on the web at www.emmaclark.org, provides public library service to all residents of the Three Village Central School District.
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