A Glimmer of Hope for the Hungry People of Southbury

The Summer of 2024 has been a rough one for the hungry people of Southbury, and it's been a particularly bad one for the Southbury Green shopping plaza. Three of Southbury's newest restaurants that brought a nice buzz to the local culinary scene abruptly closed, but there is a glimmer of hope.

At the end of May, three restaurants located in the Southbury Green shopping plaza closed without much warning at all. Lucas Local, Mission Salad, and Monty's Downtown, which had just opened up in the former Chip's location disappeared due to a common problem in 2024 - The cost of operating a restaurant in the state of Connecticut. Who knows what happened, but most of the reports coming out of Southbury blamed a rent dispute between the owner of the restaurants and the plaza.

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It's not a seafood restaurant, a salad place, or a sports bar and grill that's been announced to replace any of the three, it's the newest franchise spreading out to a few locations already in Connecticut. According to the latest Southbury Business Update posted on southbury-ct.org, Bubbakoo's Burritos is coming to the Southbury Green Plaza at 775 Main Street South and will fill those empty stomachs in the near future.

I've never been, but the menu looks similar to the menus at Moe's/Chipotle/Salsa Fresca. Burritos, bowls, tacos, and wraps, with a wide-selection of ingredients. If you can wait for Southbury, a Bubbakoo's location is already open down the street in Oxford at 71 Oxford Ave. There are four Bubbakoo's locations in Connecticut at the moment - Oxford, Orange, Stamford, and Norwalk.