THOMASTON — Steve Steeves, owner of Camden’s Fresh, along with his brother Jaimie, owner of J and J Lobsters in Rockland, are completely revamping the former Irving gas station at 118 Main Street in Thomaston. Their new venture, scheduled to open this coming May, will be a 64-seat bistro called Alloy, named for the “alloy of flavors” soon to tickle the palate from their world cuisine and wood-fired oven.

The outside of the 1,150 square-foot eatery will look like the gas station of yore, and, playing off the station’s inception in 1938, the interior theme will hinge on the 1940s and 1950s era.

In warmer weather, patrons will experience a ”New York-style gas station feel, the way they roll up the doors in the summertime, with a deck out front for seating,” Steeves said. “Thomaston needs something like that.”

The Steeves applied for the renovation permits more than a year ago, and have been working steadily to finish the project.

Though the overall project has been approved, it continues to reappear on the planning board’s agenda for tweaks to the floor plan, according to Thomaston Code Enforcement Officer Bill Wasson.

The building, which also housed a repair garage, has not been occupied in several years; therefore, surprises keep surfacing, such as a cement basement that no one knew about, and the realization that support beams were needed to hold the roof up. 

Reach Sarah Thompson at news@penbaypilot.