The Pelletier family, nationally known for their Friday night show “American Loggers" on the Discovery Channel (except to me, who had no idea that this show existed before today, but will now surely become obsessed with it), has purchased two shuttered, adjacent businesses in Millinocket and started to merge the spaces into a "large eatery." With logging work slow, the family and a contracting team have thrown themselves into extensive remodeling work in hopes of opening the restaurant later this year.

One of the spaces the Pelletiers purchased was the former site of the Downtown Restaurant, which held a special place in the family's heart before it closed last November. "We just hated to see it [the Downtown Restaurant] shut down. We’ve been eating there for 35 years or so,” said Eldon Pelletier, adding that the new restaurant will be "a local bar and grill."

Some are speculating, and hoping, that the eatery will become a part of the show, which has been picked up for a second season. Food genre TBD, but I'll bet potatoes will be on the menu. And bacon. And ham. And damn, now I've gone and made myself hungry for breakfast.

Jessica Strelitz is a contributing writer to Maine Food & Lifestyle magazine.