‘Daily Report’: Crispy Catch wants to serve beer and wine

Photo by Matt Sigur.

Two months after opening, Crispy Catch seafood restaurant has filed a rezoning application with the Planning Commission that, if approved, will allow the Perkins Road overpass-area restaurant to sell beer and wine.

Owner Tyler Pizzolato says his request to be rezoned as a C-AB-1—which allows up to 50% of a restaurant’s sales to come from alcohol—was always part of his plan and is not in response to sluggish sales. However, serving beer and wine will make the restaurant more competitive with the many other neighborhood eateries that sell alcohol.

“There are a lot of restaurants in the area, and everybody serves beer and wine,” says Pizzolato, whose restaurant is situated in close proximity to a number of bars and restaurants. “Now that summer is here, we thought it would be a good time to do it.”

Crispy Catch, which has styled itself as a fast casual restaurant with a menu of fried catfish dishes, opened in March in a renovated space at 3109 Perkins Road previously occupied by Kean’s Dry Cleaner. Pizzolato says business has been good in his first 60 days.

The Planning Commission will take up the matter at its June 15 meeting.

—Stephanie Riegel for Daily Report