I thought this was kind of funny. On page B1 of the Journal Star Thursday, December 30, there’s this little blurb:
What’s up with Bar Louie?
Blogger and entertainment editor Danielle Hatch is still trying to find out details on why there’s a closed sign on the door at the Bar Louie restaurant a the Shoppes at Grand Prairie. If you know more, join the conversation online.
So I go online and just type “Bar Louie Peoria” into Google. WEEK’s site pops up, where this story is posted with a date of Wednesday, December 29:
The General Manager at the Shoppes, Dawn Shipman says Bar Louie has closed “as a normal course of business.”
Bar Louie’s lease at the Shoppes has expired and closed immediately.
Mystery solved! Can someone from WEEK drop the Journal Star a line letting them know what’s going on over there at the Shoppes? They’re looking for details….
Wow Im shocked this place stayed open as long as it did. The food has always been overpriced and sub par. I remember three years ago a corporate chef and manager from Bar Louie would come into the place I tended bar at and talk about how they had been sent by the company to turn the place around……
I am still somewhat shocked that Grand Prairie has not worked being the amount of money etc concentrated up there. It seems to go against logic…..
No comment on the business closing. Restaurants have short life spans, and I don’t get worked up over trendy mall-based places shutting their doors. I assume the investors were get tax write offs.
But I find the who whole PJS/WEEK thing sad and humorous. Back in the day a newspaper staff would feel shame and humiliation at being beaten by TV or radio. Now, it’s like they don’t even worry about it enough to watch the news.
You mean to say that the main stream media is not some widespread conspiracy and they are not all in cahoots with each other?
charlie: That would kill Fox News.
It is troubling that Bar Louie joins Old Chicago (downtown) in closing.
Bar Louie!?!?
WHO CARES!!
They closed the damned pretzel place down!!
What the hell!! Buying a book at Borders, then grabbing a pretzel and a drink, while sitting outside made the trip to the mall worthwhile. Now…? How in the hell can a mall NOT have a pretzel joint!?!?
Marshall’s is closing, Carbon closed. the list grows and grows.
Paul, Carbon closed not necessarily due to lack of business, but the owner was ‘done’ with running a nightclub for now. That’s according
to the Peoria Journal Star article. But who knows. At least he turned that area around, cleaned it up, no reported police problems there.
regardless of why Carbon closed, it is another business gone and more unemployed workers. adding another problem piece to our economic issues. I haven’t talked to Brandon to see why he closed.