I just have some random facts and thoughts on Saratoga Restaurants and nightclubs.
- I stopped into Beverly's on Phila Street over the weekend for coffee. I don't know how long this has been the case but they are no longer serving dinner. The employee I talked to said they stopped "a while back" but they may consider doing it again. It seems to me that Beverly's has been the breakfast and lunch place for so long that unless they do some significant advertising they simply won't ever be able to attract a dinner crowd. It's a great restaurant, in fact has the best breakfasts in the Spa City, but it just doesn't feel like a dinner place so I'm not surprised it has been discontinued there.
- Speaking of dinner places - what's up with Max London's? I didn't catch this right away but if you connect some dots on a few other blogs and newspaper articles you will see that at the very least they have a $50,000 tax issue with the State of New York. I hope this issue is not a sign of - well, I don't know how to candy coat it so I'll just say it - impending bankruptcy and/or closure. Max London's is an excellent restaurant and I just had a great meal there two weeks ago so hopefully track season got them in better shape. I would encourage all Saratoga residents and visitors to go there and experience the place and hopefully give them some needed business.
- Regardless of how well or poorly Max London't is doing, I can't help but ask that with the lousy economy how many Saratoga restaurants will go out of business before the crowds pick up again next summer? It's unfortunately not a question of if but how many. Let's hope it's the bare minimum.
- No matter how many restaurants close, it seems like there are always many new ones opening. I stopped into the Hampton Inn downtown the other day and asked when the proposed restaurant, Jacob and Anthony's, will be going in there. An employee told me that it would open sometime in March. That March date is already later than originally scheduled so we'll see how close they stick to that.
- Speaking of helping dinner places downtown, I'd really like to see a movie theater be part of the new police station, as some have proposed earlier this year. I went to the movies out in Wilton last week with my girlfriend and it occurred to me that we hardly ever go to the movies. I love the movies in the Saratoga County Arts Council building (the old library) on Broadway and Spring, but it's not the same as seeing a first run movie in the theater. If there was one downtown, I feel it would be successful and I know I would go much more often than I do now.
- I heard a radio advertisement for the Racino's Vapor Nightclub a week or two ago. They had a rather interesting marketing approach - let's just call it shotgun - they were trying to get anybody and everybody to come there. The gist of the commercial was that it didn't really matter how you were dressed and it didn't matter if you were in your 20s or your 50s - Vapor was for you.
Well that's about it for now. Take care.
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