NEW HAVEN — The husband-and-wife proprietors of popular downtown eatery Bespoke have sold the restaurant and its 266 College Street home to Lauren Kendzierski and chef Yosef Ghailini. Arturo Camacho and Suzette Franco-Camacho were locked in a years-old legal battle with Yale University over a sliver of land behind the building, which Yale initially permitted the restaurateurs to use but then rescinded permission. On January 4 a state appellate court ruled in the Camachos’ favor, but the pair had already decided to quit the Elm City and start anew in Branford, where they will open a “gastropub” at 2 East Main Street known as the Surburban, according to the New Haven Register. But that’s not all: The Camachos also plan to open a second Branford eatery at 1205 Main Street, most recently the home of Thai One, that Arturo Camacho said will be in the spirit of the couple’s first New Haven venture, the wildly popular Roomba. That Hyperion Court eatery went dark in 2007 after Yale University Properties terminated the Camachos’ lease as part of the ongoing legal conflict.
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