Mourning Cloak, a bakery and café, is launching Friday on Washington Avenue in the former Bake Maine space.

The new venue held soft opening trial runs last weekend with a partial menu. Mourning Cloak will serve classic house-baked specialties like raspberry scones, blueberry muffins and brown butter cookies, along with globally and seasonally inspired items like parsnip carrot cake and cardamom buns.

The breakfast program will also include oatmeal, yogurt parfaits and breakfast sandwiches on buttermilk biscuits or gluten-free Brazilian cheesy bread (pão de queijo). Lunch items will include grain bowls, salads and daily focaccia pizza specials. Mourning Cloak serves Karma Coffee from Sudbury, Mass.

Mourning Cloak will sell its offerings to go, though customers will also be able to sit in the adjoining space that owner William Justice plans to open early this summer as a seasonally driven restaurant, Sweetfern Geometer.

Justice was previously chef-owner of Tannat, a New York City restaurant with a four-course omakase-style format where he decided the customers’ dishes. The concept at Sweetfern will be similar: guests pick a protein (meat, seafood or plant-based) for the table, and meals will be rounded out with three or four accompanying “surprise” dishes.

“This reflects a different kind of hospitality system that I hope changes the relationship between the diner and chef,” said Justice, who will also be chef at Sweetfern. “This is based more on trust and communal experience.”

Justice expects the Sweetfern program will cost $75-$80 per person, though he’ll also offer a small a la carte menu for diners who prefer to choose their own adventure.

Mourning Cloak and Sweetfern Geometer are named, respectively, for native Maine butterflies and moths, meant to represent the day and night missions of Justice’s twin ventures.

Mourning Cloak will be open seven days from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.