Coxsackie's Riverfront Kitchens Keep Different Nights. Friday Is When They Line Up.

What is open at the bottom of South River Street tonight? Over the past two years the honest answer has kept changing. In August it changed twice more. One property sits on 600 feet of Hudson River shoreline, and the hotel on it gives its address as 60 South River Street. It now holds a tavern with a new operator, a rooftop with a new restaurant, and a hotel lobby bar with its own music calendar. All three share the same property and the same view, and they keep separate hours.

Put their listed schedules side by side and they overlap far less than the shared address suggests. Thursday through Saturday, both restaurants are serving. On Sunday, only the rooftop is. On Monday, neither restaurant lists any hours at all. The only stretch of the week when the tavern, the rooftop and live music in the lobby bar are all going at once is Friday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. The hotel's listing runs that music through December 18.

Third Operator in Three Years at Patrick Henry's

The tavern's historic building has the longest history on the property. The Times Union reports that the name Patrick Henry's doesn't refer to the Founding Father. It comes from the first names of the partners who opened the tavern in 1970, and that version lasted until about 2018. The tavern reopened in April 2023 under Albany restaurateur Dominick Purnomo, who was the food partner for developer Aaron Flach's $12 million project on the site. Flach's own company had run the tavern since the beginning of 2025.

In August, management passed to Saucy Hospitality, the company run by Bashir Chedrawee. Chedrawee founded Simone's Kitchen in West Coxsackie in 2018, in a building Flach also owns. The Times Union called it the tavern's third operator in as many years. The name stays, and so does the brick pizza oven at the center of the kitchen. Chedrawee told the paper that a new menu would be developed, some new staff and management had been hired, and recipes and operations would be standardized.

"We're looking at it as a blank slate." Bashir Chedrawee, speaking to the Times Union in August 2026

He told the paper he expected the full set of changes by October, followed by a promotional push to reintroduce the tavern. So the version of Patrick Henry's open in early November is the one that change was aimed at. If you last ate there in the summer, expect it to be different.

Patrick Henry's own site lists the tavern as open Tuesday through Saturday, 3 to 9 p.m., with happy hour Tuesday through Friday from 3 to 5. The hotel's page gives happy hour as Tuesday through Saturday, so call ahead before you plan a Saturday around it. The dinner menu on the tavern's site includes buffalo cauliflower, a Reuben, a fried chicken sandwich, and specialty pies called the Ulti-roni, the PH Supreme and the Buffalo Chicken.

The Rooftop Became a Barbecue Restaurant

The fifth floor has been through even more. Day Line Oyster Bar + Kitchen opened on the hotel's roof in late 2023 as an 85-seat seafood restaurant, with a deck that looks out 180 degrees over the river and the countryside. It closed in August 2025 for a renovation that never happened. In August 2026, according to the Times Union, it reopened as the second location of Lil' Piece, the barbecue restaurant based in Greenville.

The two kitchens upstairs and downstairs don't overlap on food either. The hotel's dining page lists Lil' Piece's menu with deviled eggs, smoked-and-fried wings, pork-belly burnt ends, brisket, spare ribs, pulled pork, BBQ sausage, and a family feast for the table. Patrick Henry's downstairs is a pizza-and-pub kitchen.

The hours are the other difference. The same page lists Lil' Piece for dinner Thursday through Sunday, 4 to 9 p.m. So the rooftop is open on Sunday, when the tavern is closed, and closed on Tuesday and Wednesday, when the tavern is open. The page doesn't mention any winter schedule for the fifth floor. As the weather turns, a quick call before heading up is worth it.

Where the Calendars Cross

The third room is the Blue Heron, the hotel's lobby bar. The hotel describes it as the place for evening cocktails, with a dog-friendly patio and a seasonal fireplace. On Fridays it adds live music from 6:30 to 9 p.m., and the hotel's event listing runs from January 2 through December 18, 2026. Put that next to the two restaurant schedules and you get this week:

Tuesday and Wednesday are tavern nights, so a happy-hour plan at Patrick Henry's has the riverfront mostly to itself. On Friday all three operators are running, and from 6:30 to 9 p.m. you can choose between barbecue upstairs, pizza next door, and music in the lobby bar, all on one property. Counting from the first week of November, the listing has seven of those Fridays left, from November 6 through December 18. One of them, November 27, falls the day after Thanksgiving. The hotel also lists a monthly Musical Bingo from 6 to 8 p.m. and a monthly Paint & Sip, but hasn't posted dates for either.

The Wire Has Two Dates, and Both Fall on Sunday

The fourth building on the property is The Wire Event Center, and two public events are on its calendar before the year ends. Both fall on a Sunday, the one evening only the rooftop serves dinner.

The first is the Greene County Historical Society's "Echoes of the Past, History & Hors d'oeuvres" fundraiser on Sunday, November 15, from 1 to 4 p.m. The society's events page lists local-history presentations, music, a silent auction, and raffles. When the fundraiser lets out at 4, Lil' Piece opens upstairs.

The second is the village's biggest day of the season. Christmas by the River runs Sunday, December 6, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. across downtown Coxsackie, according to the Village of Coxsackie's Council on the Arts page. It brings the C-A Community Band to The Wire, along with:

• Crafts and gifts from more than 50 vendors
• Santa's Workshop, food trucks and trolley rides
• The Hermance Library Wreath Auction
• The Shipwrecked Cook-Off
• A Gingerbread House Contest at Village Blooms
• Pony rides and a petting zoo

That afternoon fills up. The historical society has also scheduled Part 1 of its Pearl Harbor Talk on December 6, from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Vedder Research Library, 90 County Highway 42, with a suggested $10 donation. Part 2 follows on Monday, December 7, from 7 to 8 p.m., so anyone who spends the whole Sunday on the riverfront can still catch the second half. The society's Veterans Day Talk with Richard Muggeo and Ron Gabriele comes earlier, on Wednesday, November 11, from 7 to 8 p.m. at the same library. That's a tavern night on the riverfront, if you want dinner first.

On December 6, the fair wraps up at 4 p.m. and Lil' Piece opens at 4 p.m. on the hotel's fifth floor, on the same property as The Wire. Patrick Henry's will be closed, since it's a Sunday. The Blue Heron's last listed Friday of music comes twelve days later, on December 18.

Our agents at The Angela Lanuto Team keeps close track of Greene County's river towns, including which doors on South River Street are open on any given night. If you're weighing a move to Coxsackie, or wondering how the newer riverfront fits into your home's story, let's chat!