Re: Westport
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:01 am
So weird, I remember always passing blarney on my way to chez Charlie’s and the youngest person in there was always still at least 50beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:53 amPlaces we used to go to get cheap deals on drinks and an open pool table are now some weird type of cool. idk.
It got less stabby once the Chez folks bought it, right?Riverite wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:57 amSo weird, I remember always passing blarney on my way to chez Charlie’s and the youngest person in there was always still at least 50beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:53 amPlaces we used to go to get cheap deals on drinks and an open pool table are now some weird type of cool. idk.
Was there an official announcement that First Friday's are no longer taking place?Critical_Mass wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 7:28 am FF was also a gallery crawl (originally). No art galleries in Westport but maybe if the FF festival for the masses can move elsewhere, it can return to it's former roots again in Crossroads
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/28/to-go-c ... covid.htmlWestport Cafe in Kansas City, Missouri, was one of the restaurants that turned to cocktails as a lifeline during the crisis. Before the pandemic, alcohol accounted for about 40% of its sales. Last summer, the French bistro invested in a frozen drink machine to make its own takes on craft cocktails. It also created special meal deals that included a mimosa package or a bottle of wine to help drive sales.
“It’s not the reason why we’re still here, but it helped a lot,” co-owner Nicolas Mermet said.
The cafe plans to resurrect the frozen drink machine in June as the weather heats up. Missouri’s legislature recently passed a bill to make to-go cocktails permanent, and the bill is just waiting on a signature from the governor.
“The businesses may be less reliant on it, but it will still be an important offering for them,” Hawkins said.
According to Marbet Lewis, founding partner of Spiritus Law, the pandemic helped change legislators’ minds about the idea of selling cocktails to go and restaurants’ ability to comply with alcohol laws.
“There is precedent and history that this concept isn’t the evil that everyone perceived it to be prior to the pandemic,” Lewis said. “Before the pandemic, I think there was a lot of concern about compliance.”
Lewis said that states are primarily adding more controls and parameters when they permanently allow to-go cocktails to keep restaurants from operating like liquor stores. Among states’ top concerns are preventing underage drinking and drunken driving.
It depends on what your definition of FF is. If you define it as a "festival" or "August 2019" then that will never return because it put way too much pressure on an all-volunteer neighborhood association to handle the limited security/permitting apparatus. If you define it as "June 2021", that looked a lot like FF before it became a street carnival (most galleries open, a few street vendors, no food trucks, restaurants full of people) -- you know, a gallery crawl.DColeKC wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 3:25 pmWas there an official announcement that First Friday's are no longer taking place?Critical_Mass wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 7:28 am FF was also a gallery crawl (originally). No art galleries in Westport but maybe if the FF festival for the masses can move elsewhere, it can return to it's former roots again in Crossroads
Thanks for the clarification.DaveKCMO wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:08 amIt depends on what your definition of FF is. If you define it as a "festival" or "August 2019" then that will never return because it put way too much pressure on an all-volunteer neighborhood association to handle the limited security/permitting apparatus. If you define it as "June 2021", that looked a lot like FF before it became a street carnival (most galleries open, a few street vendors, no food trucks, restaurants full of people) -- you know, a gallery crawl.DColeKC wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 3:25 pmWas there an official announcement that First Friday's are no longer taking place?Critical_Mass wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 7:28 am FF was also a gallery crawl (originally). No art galleries in Westport but maybe if the FF festival for the masses can move elsewhere, it can return to it's former roots again in Crossroads
Worth noting that Jim Leedy left Westport for the Crossroads because he was priced out. I also can't imagine galleries returning to Westport in the same way. It feels like fledgling galleries have dispersed to other low cost spaces rather than consolidating in one new place.