Everything But Anchovies, the Hanover restaurant whose telephone number every Dartmouth student knows, is expanding to occupy the storefront next door.
The renovations, which started two weeks ago and will cost about $200,000, should be done by the middle of February said Charlie Dowd, one of the co-owners of the restaurant.
. "The place will just be bigger, more comfortable for the diners," Dowd said.
The owners of EBA's have been negotiating with the store's landlords for about a year for the space, previously occupied by Country Comfort.
The additions include repositioning the front door so cold air will not blow through the dining room in the winter, refurbishing the bathrooms, remodeling the kitchen and adding central heating and air-conditioning.
EBA's will add booths along the wall where there are now only tables.
Tina Rutar '98, a waitress at EBA's, said business has not really suffered due to the renovations.
"It seems to me a large chunk of their business comes from ... people who come no matter what," she said.
Dowd said the owners decided to add to the restaurant, which has not moved since its founding in 1982, because they had just signed a new lease.
"We didn't want to make any capital improvements in the last couple of years because our lease was coming due," he said. "But now we've got a new 25-year one, so we figured it would be a good time to invest."
