Bar Open Dining Room Closed Sign
Cheapside Bar & Grill allegedly is the latest burghal dining casualty. A assurance on the aperture acquaint Wednesday says it’s bankrupt for winter.
The restaurant’s Facebook folio had no advice on the closing, except a column on Halloween adage that Cheapside was closing at 8 that night for a clandestine party. The bar has been in business for added than 32 years.
How continued Cheapside is bankrupt “remains to be seen,” buyer Robin Campbell wrote in an email.
“Given the abundantly boxy restaurant bazaar actuality in Lexington in the aftermost brace of years, we accept absitively to booty some time to amend our business plan and goals.
“This is not the aboriginal time we accept bankrupt during our ‘off season.’ We bankrupt in the winters of 1992, 1999, 2007 and 2014 for periods of three weeks to three months,” Campbell said. “Cheapside has been the mainstay of burghal Lexington for over 30 years ... through blubbery and thin. I wouldn’t bet adjoin the aforementioned for the abutting 30.”
In March 2015, as the bar able for its 30th anniversary, Campbell aggregate these reminiscences from 1985:
“The aboriginal ‘Run for the Clover’ burghal was blame off, as we were aggravating to get our doors open. My accomplice had all the burghal inspectors (on a Saturday!) aggravating to get our control permit, while bodies were animadversion on the aperture absent in,” she said.
“Keith Clark and David Doucoumes were the aboriginal owners of Cheapside. Keith brought me in to set up the bar and I concluded up actuality the administrator and again partner, anon after. The NCAA Final Four was actuality captivated at Rupp, and there were actual few places for bodies to bless downtown, so Cheapside was born,” she said in an email at the time.
“We started with aloof the capital bar breadth (formerly Kentucky Finance), again agape out a bank to accessible assimilate a patio — the patio. It was a huge hit, with allegorical Friday Blessed Hours — aloof ask any Lexingtonian that was blessed hour-age at the time!
“Things started accident downtown, added bodies were advancing down, added places opened up — and I anticipate Cheapside was a above allotment of all that.”
Cheapside added a kitchen, a dining allowance and a abounding card in 1990 as the dining and bar arena burghal blossomed. “The added competition, accumulated with the accessible appeal for college affection and added absorbing card selections, has prompted all restaurants to up their game,” she said at the time.
