The building at 2 Main Street was built to move people through it, not to keep them. High ceilings meant for steam and soot. A fireplace anchoring one end of a room designed for waiting, not lingering. Big windows that used to frame train platforms and now frame Main Street traffic. It has been a depot longer than it has been anything else, and several restaurants have operated there.
Mayo's closed. The Wooden Spoon closed after it. The sequence is part of the building's restaurant history. But this fall, the newest development isn't a closing. It's an opening, about forty miles inland, and it says something about Somersworth that the empty storefronts never could.
Restaurants in the Depot Building
Station 319 opened in the depot's shell after Mayo's and the Wooden Spoon closed, and it continues to operate in the building. It runs as a breakfast and brunch spot, open by 7:30 in the morning on weekdays and by 7 on weekends, serving out of a room diners still describe by its bones, the soaring ceiling, the fireplace, the windows, rather than by any menu item. Its setting is part of the dining experience.
Here's a rough sketch of what that building has cycled through:
| Business | What Happened |
|---|---|
| Mayo's | Closed |
| The Wooden Spoon | Closed |
| Station 319 | Opened, still running breakfast and brunch |
| Anatolia (Turkish Mediterranean) | Opened in the same building and thriving |
That last row is the one worth sitting with.
The Same Walls, a Different Kind of Business
Anatolia's restaurant occupies a space inside the depot building. The restaurant serves Turkish and Mediterranean fusion, sourcing produce and meat from New Hampshire farms, and it built a following strong enough that regulars now plan around its quirks, including the fact that there's no parking directly out front. If you're going, you park on Main Street or somewhere else downtown and walk the rest of the way. That's not a complaint locals make lightly about a place they don't like.
Anatolia's continued presence in the depot is only part of its story.
What "Expansion" Actually Means Here
In late July, Anatolia announced a second location inside Concord's Centennial Hotel, with an opening projected around mid-October, pending final preparations and approvals. The Centennial is a Victorian brick building dating to 1892, built on a site that had housed the Centennial Home, one of the state's earliest charitable homes for elderly women, since 1876. It's since been reworked into a boutique hotel, the kind of address that doesn't rent space to restaurants it doesn't expect to draw a crowd.
That's the detail that reframes the whole story. Anatolia's Concord location is an expansion, not a departure from Somersworth. The restaurant credited its regulars for making the expansion possible.
For anyone tracking Somersworth's downtown, Anatolia's second location offers one perspective on the town's food businesses.
Other Somersworth Food Businesses
None of this is happening in isolation. A few blocks up High Street, The Rail at La Stazione keeps its own Italian menu in rotation, an intimate room built around the kind of dishes that reward a slow dinner rather than a quick one. And out toward the industrial park, Earth Eagle Tavern - North, formerly Earth Eagle Brewings, spent spring 2026 adding street tacos, burrito bowls, and chips and queso to a menu that already ran deep on panini, loaded hot dogs, rice bowls, and chili. The room still runs weekly trivia on Wednesdays, live music some weekends, and comedy nights roughly twice a month, alongside a homebrew supply shop next door for anyone inspired to try their own batch. It's not glamorous. It's the kind of place that keeps a regular crowd because it changes just enough to stay interesting without pretending to be something it's not.
Taken together, these businesses reflect the range of Somersworth's food scene.
October Is Already Booked
The timing lines up in a way worth noticing. Anatolia's Concord location is aiming for a mid-October opening, and on October 10, the Somersworth Pumpkin Festival returns to Somersworth Plaza for its annual run. One is a restaurant stepping into a bigger market. The other is the same small city doing what it does every fall, pulling its own crowd into its own plaza. Neither one needs the other to succeed, and that's the point. Somersworth's calendar this October has room for both a hometown business proving itself somewhere bigger and a hometown tradition that never needed to leave in the first place.
The depot building's restaurant history includes closures, businesses that continue to operate there, and Anatolia's announced Concord location.
We keep an eye on stories like this because they tell you more about a place than a listing sheet ever could, and because the people who already live here are usually the first to notice when something's shifting. If you're curious about what any of this means for property nearby, or just want to talk through what you're seeing on your own block, Williams & Co. is easy to reach. Let's Connect.
