While the bar hasn't said anything official about the closing, their Facebook had the following statuses on December 8th:
- "Now that is a lot of shots....THANK YOU to everyone that showed up last night...Memories last forever"
- "The last ones standing...Best Staff, Best Wings (people's choice winner) and most importantly the BEST CUSTOMERS.."
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| Mushroom in the walk-in |
- I called the bar the past three days, and no one picked up.
- Their website is no longer active.
- A recent Yelp review on 12/16/2014 stating, "They have gone out of business so if are clicking help through groupon - don't buy this one . We really liked them while open and bought the groupon, now waiting for a refund"
- Visitors to this site letting me know they drove by recently and it was closed.
This is the fourth bar from the 2nd set of bars (10 total) to air during season 3 of Bar Rescue, and the Bar Rescue Update Page has been updated with this information.
That place was so nasty.
ReplyDeleteI'm not surprised that this place would end up closed.
ReplyDeleteThis was one of my favorite episodes. James was awesome and Kevin was an ass...
ReplyDeleteThe worst kitchen Ive ever stepped in.
ReplyDeleteWhenever the question arises of whether the show is staged, I think of that fist-sized mushroom growing out of the wall. You can coach people to act like jerks on camera but you can't fake *that*.
ReplyDeleteIf you are Chef Duffy (sorry for any doubt, but this is the Internet), the kitchen and food segments are usually my favorite part of the show. Your work at Downey's made me want to schedule a trip to Ireland.
ReplyDeleteI am stunned by the level of filth in some of the kitchens, both because there appears to be a general failure of health inspection across the nation, and because it's difficult for me to believe that anybody would want to work in that level of filth. A couple of bar owners have passed through this blog and offered interesting excuses for things like a dead rat or piles of trash on their premises... I hardly know what to say.
With no disrespect to Chef Duffy - who is my favorite among Jon's kitchen experts - I can no longer think of him without hearing the distinctive accent of Ami Benari shouting "Fat boy!"
ReplyDeleteAccording to the FB page last month, "Kimberly, yes wes have now closed. Lease expired in December and we realized we could no longer keep the doors open in that horrible location. 2 1/2 years of great food, fun and friendships though"
ReplyDeleteChef Duffy may be a bit chubby, but he's a cutie!
ReplyDeleteDoes anyo what kind of mushroom that was?
ReplyDeleteThey appear to be Chanterelles or a related species, albeit in clear distress judging by the colour and wilting. What's rather funny is that they're completely edible (and very tasty) and produce a fruity smell similar to apricots, so Jon's freakout over them was over nothing. Apperently Fairways grew their own mushrooms so it might have gotten there from spore migration. Still really nasty though :/
ReplyDeleteWatching this episode noW eeew
ReplyDeleteWatching this episode right now!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like Kevin gets the last laugh
ReplyDeleteActually Joe that part of the show was faked. Those mushrooms were merely props.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes down to health inspectors by law they only do 2 random inspections a year so that can give a bar plenty of time to accumulate filth.
ReplyDeleteReally, it's more than that. First, restaurants that don't clean between health inspections aren't clean when they are inspected. Second, six months of filth can look bad -- but it still looks different than years of filth.
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