Broomstack has new owners
Photo L-r: Alfiero Silveri, Maria Leggett, Rose Duggan, and Stephen Brotschul
From staff reports
Broomstack Kitchen & Taphouse, the popular restaurant which shares a building with the Leelanau Curling Club, has new owners. The managing partners are: Alfiero Silveri, a restaurant veteran and sommelier who managed Trattoria Stella in Traverse City for more than 10 years; Stephen Brotschul, a former boarding school teacher who once worked at The Leelanau School (and is now president of the Glen Lake Chamber of Commerce), and Maria Leggett, an adjunct professor at Northwestern Michigan College’s Culinary Institute who runs the Grand Traverse Sauce Company. The group also hired Culinary Institute alum Rose Duggan as their executive chef.
Broomstack frequently hosts live music and has begun to schedule special events this summer, including food pairings with local wineries and breweries, as well as catering. The restaurant is open Monday-Saturday, and potentially Sundays for special events.
“We do our best to keep things fresh and local, with practically every menu item featuring local, regional, and Michigan-only products,” said Brotschul.
