COCHECTON, NY — There was a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new restaurant called the Cochecton Fire Station, located in the tiny hamlet’s historical fire station. The building has been renovated by owners Josiah Early and Ezekial Miller.

Early and Miller are also the core of an events and consulting business called The Horses Mouth. The website (www.thehorsesmouthny.com) says, “Friends for over two decades from growing up in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, both Josiah and Ezekiel recently relocated to upstate New York’s Sullivan County in the western Catskills. Together they share extensive knowledge, experience and passion about the history of mixology.”

It also says, “The Horses Mouth created the Ornery Old Fashioned in honor of local pioneer John Gorzynski of the Gorzynski Organic Farm in nearby Cochecton Center. Its ingredients are Sazerac rye, Amaro Sfumato, oleo saccharum, Angostura bitters, orange bitters, orange peel, and a Luxardo maraschino cherry.”

When it comes to eats, the restaurant has a wood-burning oven (in keeping with the fire theme), and offers a “$5” and a “not $5” menu. On the former side you’ll find bar food classics; the more formal fare includes skirt steak and cedar-plank trout.