The owners of Blue's Egg brunch restaurant on the west side of Milwaukee are planning a second location in Shorewood.

Dan Sidner, who owns the restaurant with chef Joe Muench, said plans aren't final but are in the works for 4195 N. Oakland Ave.

That's at E. Olive St., in the Mosaic building. The building, which has 96 apartments and more than 16,500 square feet of retail space, opened this year and holds a Mod Pizza restaurant, a pet store, eyeglass shop and fitness center on the first floor.

Black Shoe Hospitality requested a $200,000 grant from Shorewood's Community Development Authority for the project, said Tyler Burkart, Shorewood's assistant village manager.

The restaurant group's plans call for enclosing an open-air patio to add year-round seating and making it a glassy, four-season room with overhead doors, Burkhart said.

The $200,000, drawn from tax incremental financing district revenue, would cover a gap in Black Shoe's funding.

Drawings submitted to the village show that the addition would make up about a third of the restaurant's seating, estimated at a capacity of 130.

Black Shoe presented its plans on Friday to the authority, which suggested public-financing options aside from the grant, Burkart said. Those options include the village's facade grant, which supplies up to $25,000.

Blue's Egg will make its formal proposal to the authority in a special session at 8 a.m. Sept. 22 at the Village Hall. The CDA is tentatively scheduled to make its recommendation Oct. 6 to the Village Board, which would take final action, possibly in mid-October, Burkart said.

Sidner said that the restaurant could open about April 1.

The Blue's Egg in Shorewood would be about the same size as the original restaurant at 317 N. 76th St., which opened in 2010. Sidner said the standing menu would be the same at the second location, but the Shorewood restaurant would have different daily specials.

The west side restaurant, with menu items such as monkey bread, stuffed hash browns, omelets and brunch cocktails, has been a hit. Wait times for tables can run to an hour on the weekends.

"We have given much thought over many years about opening a second Blue's Egg and are doing so with great care and consideration," Sidner said. "We believe Shorewood is the perfect place for us to grow."

Sidner and Muench's Black Shoe Hospitality also operate the Southern-style Maxie's and the Upper Midwest-inflected Story Hill BKC, both on the west side. Like the Shorewood location, both restaurants are near neighborhoods but not far from freeway access.