After sitting vacant at one of Old Town’s busiest corners, something new is brewing behind the papered-over windows of 100 N. College Ave.
The restaurant space — formerly home to The Kitchen, Next Door American Eatery, ND streetBAR and, most recently, Avery Eatery — will reopen as Maida Trattoria, a new family-owned Italian restaurant, in May or June.
The eatery will focus on scratch-made pasta dishes while also serving salads, flatbread pizzas and Italian small plates, according to McCabe Callahan, who is opening the restaurant alongside his wife, Marli Callahan, sister-in-law Kai Lipps and brother-in-law Andy Lipps. The Callahans also own Mugs in Fort Collins…