The owners of DelRossi’s Trattoria in Dublin have put the restaurant, attached apartment and property up for sale.
“Many of you have become our ‘family.’ Now it is time for us to take it a little easier and enjoy other aspects of our lives, so we have decided to sell DelRossi’s,” owners David and Elaina DelRossi wrote in an email to customers on July 22.
For sale through Tieger Realty in Jaffrey, the property is listed at $600,000, which includes the 100-seat restaurant, the apartment above the restaurant, and the 11-acre property.
DelRossi’s was started in 1989, when David and Elaina were looking for an investment property and purchased the house on Brush Brook Road in Dublin. The couple were not intending to start a restaurant, being the owners and operators of Fiddler’s Choice Music Store in Jaffrey. They still operate Fiddler’s Choice as a retail store and studio out of the upper story of DelRossi’s.
The property is a former farmhouse that once belonged to early settlers the Appleton family. And had previously been used as a residential center for a rehabilitation hospital before the couple bought it and converted it into a restaurant.
During the renovation process, the DelRossis outfitted the house as a restaurant and began operating it themselves when they could not find someone interested in leasing the space.
DelRossi’s became a well-known musical venue, sometimes hosting well-known folk and bluegrass musicians. Particularly following the closing of Peterborough’s Folkway in 1996, the restaurant was able to host Friday and Saturday music performances and hosted jam nights.
In a recent interview with the Ledger-Transcript, David DelRossi said he and his wife are hoping for a buyer interested in keeping the restaurant intact and carrying on the tradition they’ve established over the past three decades.
“We’re going to try very hard to find the right people to carry on our legacy and provide you with the hospitality and ambiance that is DelRossi’s,” the DelRossis wrote in the July 22 email.