The Pub Spirits + Craft Kitchen (formerly Pastry Pub)

Pastry Pub had run on Center Street in Cedar City since 1999 — twenty-five years of bakery-and-coffee operation in a college-town downtown that has lost most of the long-tenured rooms it started the millennium with. In May 2024, Barry Orton and Jaden Reardon bought the building at 86 W Center Street and rebranded it as The Pub Spirits + Craft Kitchen. Both new owners have deep roots in Iron County: Reardon grew up in Cedar City, and Orton came from Parowan and has lived in Cedar City since 1999 — the same year Pastry Pub originally opened. Two independent local outlets, cedarcityutah.com and stgeorgeutah.com, ran matching coverage of the ribbon-cutting.

Same Bones, New Bar Program

The bones of the Pastry Pub building stayed in place through the rebrand. The Pastry Pub footprint, layout, and structural identity carried over. What got rebuilt was the menu and the beverage program — a full bar replaced the bakery-and-coffee orientation of the prior concept, and the kitchen tilted toward a craft-kitchen format with a wider lunch-and-dinner program. Local coverage framed the change as a Cedar City favorite reimagined rather than a replacement, which is also how the new owners pitched it themselves.

Two Iron County Owners Who Knew the Block

The shared 1999 timing — Pastry Pub opening the same year Orton moved to Cedar City — is one of those small-town coincidences that shapes how a transition like this gets received. Orton and Reardon weren’t outside operators acquiring a local landmark; they were two Iron County residents who had been living in town long enough to understand what Pastry Pub had meant. The bakery side of the prior operation is the question mark in the rebrand — whether it survived, in what form, was not fully clarified in coverage — and that is a piece of the public-web ambiguity the register can help close.

The Pub in the 435

For a register of locally rooted Southern Utah businesses, this is a clean recent ownership transition with strong press coverage and clear local identity. The Pub Spirits + Craft Kitchen is also a useful test of how the register handles rebrand cycles: the public web in 2025 is mid-update on Pastry Pub versus The Pub, and Iron County travelers searching for the older name need a clean handoff to the current operation. That handoff is exactly what an editorial register does best — surface the ownership change, name the new owners, and resolve the ambiguity in one place.