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Salt North Tap Room is now closed in downtown Bangor.
The owner of the building at 16 Union St., Mark Greenleaf, confirmed in text messages to the Bangor Daily News that the restaurant is no longer operating there, pointing to a litany of issues but declining to get into specifics.
Greenleaf said that the space will now be home to MJ’s Catering and Event Center, which will be open to the public for concert and other events and private catering functions only.
The entrance to Salt North was padlocked Friday morning.
That comes after a Penobscot County judge hit Salt North’s owner, Dane Morgan, with a $135,000 default judgment — not counting interest and legal fees — in April in a lawsuit from former head chef Johnathan Williams, who accused Morgan of violating a slew of labor laws and failing to pay him for all hours worked.
Morgan failed to appear in court or defend himself. But when contacted by a BDN reporter last month, Morgan disputed the accuracy of the lawsuit’s claims.
The space at 16 Union St. was previously home to Carolina’s Sports and Spirits. Salt North opened there last June.
Calls to a phone number associated with Morgan on Friday went unanswered and an automated message said his voicemail was not set up.
