Manlius, N.Y. — All Who Wander, a tiny bar with a big reputation as a craft beer destination, is making a short trip to a new location this fall.
The four-year-old bar is taking over the spot at 145 E. Seneca St. in Manlius that has been home to Ironwood Pizza since 2012. Ironwood, which had been closed since April, announced recently it has shut down for good.
All Who Wander plans to reopen in the former Ironwood spot by late September, said Dan Chapman, who owns the bar with Joe Ori. It will remain a “beer-centric” place, Chapman said.
Chapman and Ori officially closed All Who Wander’s current location in the plaza at 315 E. Fayette St. (behind the Swan Pond) last Friday. It had been open only for curbside pick-up since the coronavirus pandemic hit Central New York in March.
In its new location, the bar will also get a slightly new name: A.W. Wander.
‘We really want to put a nuance, a new version of the name, to separate us from the original location but still keep the connection,” Chapman said. Besides, he said, most people just called it “Wander” anyway.
The key benefit to the move is space. All Who Wander had occupied a tiny 400-square-foot spot that crowds a bar with 12 taps and a few tables where customers drank their beers and ate the sandwiches on the menu.
The new space is at least six times larger, Chapman said, with a bar area and dining room. It’s also more visible than the space in the back of the plaza.
The new A.W. Wander will continue to offer hard-to-find craft beers, but will likely increase to 16 taps. There’s also more refrigerator and keg space.
The bar features beers from brewers like Singlecut Beersmiths, Suarez Family and Sloop Brewing, along with many of the other smaller craft brewers around Upstate New York. It will continue to host “can drops,” in which brewers bring special releases for limited sales, Chapman said.
The bar has always offered cans, including mix-and-match 4-packs, to go, but will likely expand that side of the business in the future, Chapman said.
One change for A.W. Wander will be the food. They are keeping the wood-fired oven that was Ironwood’s centerpiece, and are negotiating with a chef to run it.
The pizza menu will likely be “streamlined” compared to Ironwood, Chapman said. He’s not sure if they will bring back the sandwiches that have been featured at All Who Wander.
“We’re still going to focus on the beer, as we always have,” he said. “But the oven gives us a new way to approach the food, and we’ll take advantage of that."
Ori once worked as the bar manager at Ironwood, and the two places had an amicable relationship, with staff frequently directing customers to each other’s locations. (Ironwood also had a decent beer selection).
“There was a lot of overlap between the two places,” Chapman said. “And Manlius isn’t really a big place. We’ll keep it comfortable and family friendly, part of the community.”
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Don Cazentre writes for NYup.com, syracuse.com and The Post-Standard. Reach him at dcazentre@nyup.com, or follow him at NYup.com, on Twitter or Facebook.
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