Hot Broth & Coffee becomes Liberty Café

Hot Broth & Coffee, 228 N. Adams St., is now Liberty Café.

Owners Alex and Linda Galt said the Hot Broth name would not reflect their growth and development plans at the site on the corner of Pine and Adams streets.

Liberty Café was the name of a business located across the street from the Hotel Northland in the 1920s and early 1930s. Will Peters, general manager of the new Liberty Café, said the owner of the original Liberty Café was Vincent Kozenski, a Polish immigrant who lived mostly in the Upper Peninsula. The café closed in mid-1931, after which Kozenski was indicted for bootlegging whiskey, according to Peters' research.

"He was a character. But maybe not the best character..." Peters said.

The Galts decided that with the planned restoration of the Northland and renewed interest in the history of Green Bay, taking the café's original name made sense.

The Galts also own Karvarna coffeehouse on Broadway and operate the Locktender's House café on De Pere's Riverwalk.