Café Kubal to open location at Marriott Syracuse Downtown

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Café Kubal plans to open a new location in the upcoming Marriott Syracuse Downtown in “late spring.”

It will have a storefront on South Warren Street, the Marriott said in a news release issued Tuesday.

The release didn’t provide any terms of the agreement between Café Kubal and Marriott Syracuse Downtown.

Café Kubal is a Syracuse–based wholesale coffee roaster that currently operates four retail locations in the Syracuse area.

Marriott Syracuse Downtown is the new name of the former Hotel Syracuse, which is currently under renovation. It plans to open in June, according to its website.

Matt Godard, owner of Café Kubal and a Central New York native, has seen the hotel go through “many iterations over the years,” he said in the Marriott release.

“The group that Ed Riley has put together is by far the most talented and skilled,” said Godard. “The heart of our city is truly coming back and I am honored to have been selected to partner with the hotel. The community vision of this project aligns with the values of my small business, and we look forward to working with the hotel to help them accomplish this vision.”

“The culture that we are creating at this hotel is one of great community, which is a strong founding principle for both the Hotel Syracuse restoration team and the Crescent Hotels & Resorts property-management team,” Paul McNeil, general manager of the Marriott Syracuse Downtown, said in the release. “When I first started to get re-acclimated to the greater Syracuse area, I noticed pretty quickly that there is a strong presence of community-minded small businesses thriving here … and I wanted this hotel to be a supporter of that.”

Contact Reinhardt at ereinhardt@cnybj.com