We get a booth against the wall, where we drink tea and watch the neighborhood turn over on the floor; the clock rolling from breakfast rush into lunch. Almost everyone in the place seems to be a friend, a regular -- making the Sunday morning or afternoon pilgrimage for eggs and coffee and slabs of French toast stuffed with peanut butter and jelly and Belgian waffles with blueberry compote and crème fraiche. They wave to each other, gossip with their waitresses, with the owners -- brothers Jaso
Lori MidsonWell, that sucks. Just called Johnie's Bar-B-Cue, the new, late-night smokehouse at 5280 West 25th Avenue in Edgewater, only to get a voicemail greeting announcing the following: Thank you for calling Johnie's Bar-B-cue. At this time we are sad to announce the closing of Johnie's Bar-B-Que due to issues with our landlord. Thank you and have a beautiful day.A beautiful day without barbecue? Yeah, right. On a different day, I might tell you to head over to Sisters Pizzas and Mussels
A uniformed off-duty cop was working the door at Hai Bar, at 3600 West 32nd Avenue, on Saturday night. It wasn't entirely surprising, considering the altercation that occured at the 3,000-square-foot lounge below Sushi Hai two weeks ago, when a fight allegedly broke out and spilled out to the street, where shots were fired. While the cop presence might keep out the riff-raff, though, it was a bit daunting to see a uniformed officer waiting at the entrance to the swank club at the bottom
Sushi Hai, at 3600 West 32nd Avenue, celebrates its fifth anniversary tonight starting at 7 p.m., with half-off on sushi and drinks.
The Scott Davis Project will be playing acoustic blues in the downstairs Hai Bar -- a space guarded by an off-duty cop this past weekend. It was an unusual sight in Highland, but perhaps an inevitable one given the October 4 fight that started in the 3,000 square foot club and spilled out onto the street. Inevitable, if the owners of Sushi Hai want to avoid
