Just a few months after the community raised a toast to their restaurant’s 10 years in business, Lindbergh’s Crossing owners Tom Fielding and Scott O’Connor are preparing to bid Portsmouth a bittersweet adieu.

Executive chef Evan Mallett, who has been affiliated with the waterfront bistro and wine bar for six of its 11 years, will be buying the restaurant in March.

Fielding and O’Connor are moving to Provincetown, Mass., where they will be opening a small wine and spirits shop.

“An enormous extended family has emerged from this restaurant. The incredible staff that we have the pleasure to work with on a daily basis has touched our lives on so many levels,” says Fielding in a press release.

The restaurant, at 29 Ceres St., the site of Portsmouth restaurant history. Chef James Haller first converted the space into the Blue Strawbery in 1970, giving birth to Portsmouth’s fine dining culture.

“I have always told Tom and Scott, friends and family that I don’t want to own any restaurant; I want to be a part of this  restaurant,” Mallet says in the press release.