Cecil & Lime brings a colorful, creative touch to your evening
June 29, 2017
Decades ago, a combination butcher shop and grocery store was open for business in a residential area in the heart of Springfield, near the corner of Cecil and North Limestone streets. Years later, then owners created a vegan coffee shop that held the space until it closed.
Michael and Brenda Berner bought the lot, with their early concept of recreating the butcher shop to include a new lunch café that would produce and serve locally raised, all-natural meat. Ultimately, after being approved for a full-service bar license in June 2004, their conception developed to compliment a fine dining menu in the neighborhood restaurant they titled Cecil & Lime. Their son Micah Berner was named its general manager, and eventually co-owner.
Micah was granted the independence and freedom by his parents to choose bold, solid colors for the interior walls of the new restaurant to form a contemporary design, meant to enhance the outside of the New England-blue-painted building. White-clothed tables with black-cloth napkins and a bottle of wine from a full list embellish each table setting. A white acoustic grand piano is positioned in one of three dining areas for Micah (an accomplished musician) to play soothing classical and jazz themes to add to his guest’s relaxation.
He humbly toasts Cecil & Lime as, “Another good reason to stay in town!”