The storefront at 34 Audrey Avenue, the one Oyster Bay knew as Stellina Bakery & Cafe, is becoming a sushi restaurant called Hoshi, and the paperwork to pour drinks there is already in hand. On September 9, the State Liquor Authority issued Hoshi LLC a temporary retail permit for the address, good through March 8, 2027, while its full restaurant liquor application, filed back on June 22, works through review.

The name on the door will be new. The people behind it are not. Hoshi is the sixth project from Stellina Hospitality, the group whose restaurants have quietly become a large share of dining in Oyster Bay village: Stellina Ristorante on South Street, the French bistro L'Etoile two doors down, the all-day kitchen and bar The Audrey at 30 Audrey Avenue, and The Bay Butcher counter on South Street, plus Casa Stellina out in Farmingdale. Four of the five stand within a few blocks of each other, and Hoshi will make it five, steps from The Audrey at number 30.

From morning pastry to a sushi counter

The group is not being coy about what the space was. Its own announcement describes Hoshi as a sushi counter and a small dining room, opening on Audrey Avenue in the space the village knew as the old Stellina Bakery. The bakery's own liquor license lapsed at the end of February 2026, and state records show the license at its sister bakery in Syosset ran out two months before that. Rather than relaunch the bakery, the group is turning the corner into something Oyster Bay village does not currently have: a dedicated sushi room.

The concept has firmed up over the summer. The restaurant's opening page went live at its own web address, describing the counter-and-dining-room layout, and its Instagram account bills the menu as sushi and Asian fusion. The June filing with the SLA lists a full restaurant license, the class that covers cocktails and sake rather than just beer and wine, and the temporary permit issued this week lets the room pour legally the day it decides to open.

Why the paperwork matters

The temporary permit is the detail worth reading. New York's SLA moves slowly on full licenses, and restaurants that wait for the permanent paper can sit finished and dark for months. A temporary retail permit is the state's workaround: it arrives in weeks, it renews while the full application is reviewed, and its issuance is usually the sign that a project has moved from construction to countdown. Hoshi has not announced an opening date, and its own page still says coming soon. But a permit that runs through early March, sitting on top of a June application, says the group expects to be serving well before the winter is out.

A village that keeps compounding

The larger story is what keeps happening to Oyster Bay village. In the span of a few years, a hamlet best known for Teddy Roosevelt, the Oyster Festival and a working waterfront has assembled a genuine restaurant row across South Street and Audrey Avenue. This summer alone brought a wave of license activity along those blocks, including the return of the East Main Street Ale House under its old name. Stellina Hospitality has been the most aggressive builder of that row, and Hoshi is its first move outside Italian and French cooking entirely.

That reach matters. A group that already runs an Italian dining room, a French bistro, an all-day bar and a butcher counter adding a sushi room is a bet that village visitors want to park once and choose among genuinely different evenings, not variations on one kitchen. Hoshi slots into the block that already keeps the latest hours, steps from a bar that runs to last call.

What to watch for is the date. The permit is active now, the opening page is live, and a temporary permit through March on top of a June application suggests the group expects the runway to be short. When Hoshi sets the night, Audrey Avenue will have gone, in well under a year, from losing its bakery to gaining a sushi counter.