A family is looking to resurrect an old neighborhood bar in the space left vacant on Antique Row by Cookers Music Bistro, a short-lived Cajun restaurant and bar that hosted live jazz on N. Howard Street.

A trio of Marylanders has applied to transfer a Class B beer, wine and liquor license from the former operators of Cookers, which opened at 885-889 N. Howard St in 2016 but appears to have closed the following year. In its place, they’re planning to open Bentley’s, which the operators described in a statement as “the modern day, upscale reincarnate” of their own family’s neighborhood bar from “back in the day.”

The license applicants are Baltimore resident Janet Pettaway, jazz musician and retired Fairfax County fire chief Glenn Bydume, of Gambrills, and Windsor Mills resident Glenda Laws.

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