{"id":190795,"date":"2026-04-09T11:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190795\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:52:13","slug":"mr-bumbles-cafe-opens-677-broadway-location-in-albany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190795\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Bumbles Cafe opens 677 Broadway location in Albany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY\u00a0\u2014 An April 1 opening date for the second location of Mr Bumbles Cafe turned out to be a joke, albeit unintentional.<\/p>\n<p>But, after hoop-jumping with permitting agencies for six days, chef-owner Brandon Doran began serving Tuesday in the cafe off the lobby on the ground floor of an office building at 677 Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>Although the cafe has no outdoor sign yet or other visible presence from the street, on-premises employees streamed downstairs throughout opening day, Doran said Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe line for lunch just kept coming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The original Mr Bumbles, at 263 New Scotland Ave., celebrated its fifth anniversary in February. Doran, the founding chef of Tipsy Moose Tap &amp; Tavern, established the cafe brand with business partner Tom\u00a0Vacanti, a veteran educator and real estate investor who for the past two years has also owned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/tablehopping\/article\/dove-deer-albany-sold-few-changes-18620864.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pub Dove + Deer<\/a> in Albany\u2019s Center Square neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>The 677 Broadway space was operated until about a year ago as Primrose Cafe by the steakhouse 677 Prime, also located in the building, and before that by\u00a0B-rads Catering as B-rads Bistro Express. Doran said in February he chose to open downtown because he was offered a financially appealing, five-year lease and believes he can expand his customer base beyond those who work in the building to other downtown employees and to the growing nearby residential population.<\/p>\n<p>The company is planning a third location, in downtown Troy, that will open later this year or early 2027, Doran said. He declined to make its location public yet. The original serves from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY\u00a0\u2014 An April 1 opening date for the second location of Mr Bumbles Cafe turned out to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30394,1070,844,610,21903,9,11,10,49,51,50,35844,821,31842],"class_list":{"0":"post-190795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-alco","9":"tag-food","10":"tag-latestnews","11":"tag-local","12":"tag-new-restaurants","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-new-york-state","17":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-state-news","19":"tag-rensco","20":"tag-restaurants","21":"tag-table-hopping"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}