A Creative Stretch: Grinders West

By CHARLES FERRUZZA

If all goes according to plan – and in the restaurant business, it almost never does – Grinders West, the newest restaurant concept created by artist and entrepreneur known as Stretch, will open at the end of this month. I stopped by the nearly complete space, in the mustard-colored building next to the original Grinders. This building used to be an unassuming and underused performing arts space (I once saw Queen Bey do a one-woman show in here); Stretch has given it a dramatic face lift, including a unique baroque pediment adornment, kind of like the top of New York City’s Sony Building. But smaller.

Stretch says Grinders West will be a delicatessen serving soups, salads and sandwiches. And that it will be a lot slicker than the bawdier Grinders right next door.