Urban Gourmet update

[ceo]

The plywood on Urban Gourmet's windows has been spray-painted "we will open soon", but it looks like it might be a while. There's been a crew in there doing some work the last few days, but the place has been gutted to the studs.

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[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

It may be a while, but just knowing they're planning on re-opening makes me happy.

[mderidder.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that "we will open soon" has been painted on there for at least a month. The plywood looks warped from rain. I do miis their salads, though.

[billharnois.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they've been taking forever fixing UG so far. Right now it's completely empty. They initially said it would be a few months, but it never seems to work that way.

There's a lot of plywood up in Ball Sq these days. Has anyone else noticed what they're doing to the old Ball Sq seafood place? It's gutted, and I heard their turning it into a new seafood restaurant. It looks like their putting lots of big windows in too.

[ceo]

That would be way to small a space for a restaurant. I had been assuming the liquor store was expanding into it. Today there was plywood over the liquor store's window on that side.

[billharnois.livejournal.com]

They are renovating the whole side of the building all the way back down towards Rogers Ave. The owner said they are putting a seafood restaurant in there. He recently bought the whole building, and he used to have a restaurant somewhere else before. It's a pretty big building that goes way back, and it looks like there are new large windows going in towards the back (but I'm only speculating on that). I think they're expanding the liquor store into the other side, where the salon was.

[enhf94.livejournal.com]

Yes! I asked Jaime at Sound Bites how soon "soon" was and he said that they're hoping for a month or so. Although, I said, contractors are unpredictable, and he agreed.

As for the former Ball Square Seafood, he's annexed the formerly-a-dance-studio in the back, and it'll be about ten tables, reports the wife (about three months ago, so they may well have changed plans).

I snuck around to the back of the building to see the new concrete, and if they could get a permit, there's even a pretty little area in the back for an outside table or two (although I'd have trouble figuring out where the dumpsters would go, in that case).

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

thanks.

just by *reading* your post I'm craving a Chicken Pesto Panini sandwich from them.

le sigh.