Next Door Kitchen & Bar

Next Door Kitchen & Bar is a dinner restaurant at 51 Front Street in the village of Ballston Spa. The dining room was built with reclaimed barn wood, copper accents and hand-blown glass lighting, including a barn door from a barn once owned by Hezekiah Middlebrook, one of the founders of Ballston Spa.

The kitchen serves seasonal comfort food made with produce from the restaurant’s own garden on Science Street and from regional farms, with dishes such as shrimp and grits, fried chicken with a buttermilk biscuit and a grilled New York strip. The wine list favors small, family-run producers, and all draft beer comes from New York breweries.

What to know

• Reservations are accepted by phone and online and are encouraged on weekends.
• A vegan entrée is offered nightly, and many dishes are gluten-free.
• The county lot and LifeWorks lots are open to the public after 4 p.m., along with a public lot across the street.