Lobsta Bakes of Maine will be getting new owners and will reopen later this month. Photo: Facebook.com/Lobsta-Bakes-of-Maine

A Newtown lobster and seafood market will be reopening in a few weeks and is set to be taken over by new ownership later in the year.

Lobsta Bakes of Maine owner Kevin Smith told the Cincinnati Enquirer in December that he was ready to retire and the seafood spot would be closing in the new year.

However, in a happy turn of events, Smith wrote in a post on the shop’s website that Lobsta Bakes would be getting a new start with new owners, catering manager Jim Radcliffe as well as Phillip and Emma Jones.

Radcliffe not only manages the catering side of things, but Smith says he has also been supplying the seafood sold at Lobsta Bakes for 15 years.

Smith says that husband and wife duo Phillip and Emma Jones are originally from the United Kingdom but have been living in Cincinnati for three years. Emma also co-owns a luxury mobile bar, The Merry Mare.

“I am excited that they have the expertise & passion to bring the British ‘fish & chips’ cultural tradition to complement the current Lobsta Bakes offering,” Smith writes on the website.

Lobsta Bakes will be closed for the first few weeks of the year. Smith says the place will be fully in the new owners’ hands by March.

The reopening date is tentatively set for Jan. 18.

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This article appears in Dec 22, 2021 – Jan 11, 2022.