A new restaurant partnership is preparing to reinvent the long-vacant Golden Bull steakhouse in Vineyard Haven as a pair of casual eateries: MV Tap and Vineyard Caribbean Cuisine.

Vineyard Caribbean Cuisine is a buffet-style restaurant with a busy take-out business in Oak Bluffs and a second location in Falmouth. MV Tap is a new company headed by president Anderson Martins, who is leasing the former Golden Bull from Flowerwood LLC.

Mr. Martins told the Tisbury planning board this week that his restaurant will focus on burgers, “small bites” and beers, while Vineyard Caribbean Cuisine will offer its buffet and carry-out menus with some seating but no alcohol.

The two eateries will share a kitchen, but their indoor and outdoor seating areas will be separated, Mr. Martins said.

MV Tap has 40 indoor seats and another 20 on the patio, while Vineyard Caribbean Cuisine also has about 20 patio seats, according to Mr. Martins’s plans.

The Tisbury select board decided last week to hold off on issuing a liquor license for MV Tap until after Mr. Martins has completed other town permitting processes.

Select board member Christina Colarusso was excited that someone may breathe life into the building at Five Corners. 

“I am so excited about the idea of getting that space filled,” she said at the Feb. 11 meeting. “It’s been vacant and it’s the heart of our little hub down there.”

Located at 13 Beach street extension, the property holds a nearly-forgotten place in the Vineyard’s musical history. In the 1990s, it was the last home of the Wintertide Coffeehouse, a gathering place for folk musicians. The live album Big Times in a Small Town was recorded there in 1993.

At Wednesday’s public hearing, musician Andy Herr and artist Taylor Stone, of the Vineyard Haven Harbor Cultural District, appealed to the planning board to allow live music at the prominent location.

“[We’re] advocating for more music and performances and artists and beautification,” Ms. Stone said.

Mr. Martins expressed enthusiasm for the idea.

“We are planning a very fun and responsible place [where] people can enjoy and see Vineyard Haven as a happy place,” he said.

The planning board’s public hearing will continue March 5 at 6 p.m.