Inside Mudroom Market, Shoreham’s cozy new café
“Shoreham needed something like this.”
That was the enthusiastic conclusion recently reached by customer Erin Matyola inside Mudroom Market (99 Route 25A, Suite 5, Shoreham, 631-825-0157), a café and coffee shop that celebrated a July 7 soft launch in Shoreham Plaza.
“We really needed a local hometown coffee shop that everyone could come hang out in,” says Matyola, noting it was her third visit to the café in a week.
Helmed by Shoreham couple Jack and Kyle Maurelli and located in the intimate space that formerly housed Gourmelos, the menu at Mudroom Market features signature lattes like the mega-popular iced burnt banana, along with protein shakes, juices, soups, salads and sandwiches, the flour for which Jack mills each day. Everything is made in-house and contains no seed oils or added sugars, say the Maurellis, who call community reception to the café “incredible.”
“I’m just pinching myself every day,” says Jack, who works in operations for a mental health company. “I really can’t believe it. Everyone’s been so kind to us.”
In a fun twist to the health-centered menu are homemade dog- and cat-food toppers made with fresh ingredients like boiled chicken, spinach, blueberries, cinnamon and pumpkin. “They sell out every time I put them out; almost can’t keep up,” says Jack, who got his start in the restaurant industry bussing tables at 19. He later spent 14 years as a general manager for a boutique restaurant when he had a realization.
