Another Downtown place about to go under. Apparently, the "Renaissance" promised by the P&L District is working in reverse!!!
Another Downtown place about to go under. Apparently, the "Renaissance" promised by the P&L District is working in reverse!!!
Downtown restaurant/bar The Studio stops serving Breakfast and lunch . . . Probably getting ready to close.
Walked by Monday night and The Studio was closed. I don't know if it's normal for them to be closed at 5 on a Monday, but they were.
ReplyDeleteThey were open last night. At 7:00 there were only a handful of people in but by 9:00 business was moderate.
ReplyDeleteThis place just needs to figure out what it is. It's divided into 3 sections by its oddly placed bathrooms. If it wants to be a live music venue, 2/3 of the place doesn't have a decent view of th stage. If it wants to be a bar, the bar area is nice but cramped and the bartender is often off doing something else. If it wants to be a restaurant, the street-facing restaurant feels cut off from the rest of the place. Then there's the matter of the cover charges. I don't know if it's still an issue since they are ultimately what made me stop going but they had the highest cover charge downtown and would charge it at the drop of a hat. Places are going to have to learn that if they want to compete with P&L, they can't be charging admission.
How is the Power & Light District's fault that the Studio is a crappy bar? The food is mediocre, the service is poor, and they have no real strategy for this place. It's like they are throwing a bunch of ideas on the wall to see which ones stick.
ReplyDeleteSome of the other places that have closed, like the Peanut, are also like this. They were mediocre bars that only survived because they had no real competition.
I agree with Eric. All of the places you listed were shoddy bars. And yes I had been to all of them. And no, I'm not a Joco D-bag that doesn't like local bars. I'm a mid-town guy who likes the main street peanut, tower tavern, gilhouly's, and yes, even the flying saucer in P&L.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that some of these bars are closing is an indication of just how bad they were.
You and Eric are just marching in lock step with the biggest player on the block for now. The P and L District represents power and you want some so bad you'll do anything to associate yourself with it. You two sound like total Bushwits to me.
ReplyDeleteP&L is where KC's office mangers go to feel like Playaz.
ReplyDeleteThe Peanut closed? I thought it reopened a couple of weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteThe Peanut is open, geniuses.
ReplyDeleteNot in lockstep at all. The Saucer is the only P&L place that frequent. I would much rather patronize a locally owned neighborhood bar, but only if it's good. Being locally owned isn't enough of an bonus to overlook bad service or bad food.
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't want "power" whatever that means and I don't overlook locally owned places.
ReplyDeleteI want a place I can go where I can get over 80 beers on draft, or watch a concert for free that would have cost me 50 bucks a ticket next door at the Sprint Center, or sip on well aged Jameson whiskey while watching some irish chick dance the jig, or watch two slutty chicks in short skirts ride an electric bull, or choke my arterys with some fried artichokes and wash it down with a cold Marzen beer.
If that makes me bad because I didn't like pounding coors light and eating soggy nachos at Paddy O-Quigley's... then so be it.
The problem is that the P&L District is subsidized by the City, and Cordish is ramming it home to the City. It's like getting drunk and waking up with a ugly whore.
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