HALLOWELL — The public will get their first peek at the rejuvenated Slates restaurant Sunday since the business was destroyed in a fire more than a year ago.

Slates owner Wendy Larson said she plans an open house Sunday from 2-4 p.m.
“We’re opening with an open house just for people to come and see Slates,”

Larson said. “We’re not going to be open for dinner. So many people just wanted to see what it looked like.”

A final date to reopen the popular eatery has yet to be set, Larson said, with finish work still being completed.

In fact, her current plans are to open quietly without an announcement to give her staff a chance to get used to their new surroundings with a smaller crowd.

“I can’t say when that will be quite yet, it depends on so many things,” Larson said. “We’re very close, but we’re not there yet.”