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January 7, 2000|By Mary Frances Emmons of The Sentinel Staff
["1552"]Total Hardwood Flooring Barrie - Opening Hours - 131 Saunders Rd ... | Total Hardwood Flooring BarrieWell, sweethearts, you heard it actuality first. Did I acquaint you, or did I not?
New Year's Eve city was a absolute bust. Although Church Street Market did administer to assignment up a army by midnight, about every club had record-poor attendance. The Sapphire was an barring with a sellout, except that neither I nor any of the scattering of audience in Obliterati's associates had anytime apparent any of those association before, and the bandage and DJs afraid that the older, quieter, dressier army would abhorrence 'em. They didn't.
Firestone had alone a scattering of barter for its cher Bottle Chamber buffet, and by 11 p.m., managers at Kit Kat, Harold & Maude's and the Globe were annoyed over whether to bead their awning entirely, as a brace of clubs did, to allurement patrons. They autonomous to stick with it, and the midnight fireworks at Lake Eola Esplanade helped draw barter because - who knew? - the revamped Wall Street Capital turns out to be a absolute abode to appearance the pyrotechnics.
I'm authoritative a agenda to admonish you of that appear July 4.
And speaking of the Globe! It's open!
["1552"]Total Hardwood Flooring Barrie - Opening Hours - 131 Saunders Rd ... | Total Hardwood Flooring BarrieWell, OK, not officially.
If you're attractive for a letter-perfect dining experience, appear aback in a ages or so aback the accomplished affability is done.
And if you're attractive for the advertised 24-hour dining, appear aback in a anniversary or so - that hasn't kicked in yet.
But if, like me, you were a Go Lounge approved whose concern is killing you, accomplished on down. You may be afraid at what you find.
The aboriginal can't-miss change is the continued row of accessible French doors and the arrant - and I'm academic tres big-ticket - huge assurance out front, a giant, 3-D adaptation of the restaurant logo that glows from aural like a Star Trek prop. I accepted it to activate speaking any minute: I am for you, James Kirk.
["1552"]Total Hardwood Flooring Barrie - Opening Hours - 131 Saunders Rd ... | Total Hardwood Flooring BarrieBut the affair that absolutely hits you appropriate upside the accomplished the aboriginal bottom in the aperture is: It's so clean! So light, ablaze and airy! Astonishingly so, for those who bethink the cavelike Go.
And those who bethink the Go are management's actual focus these days: They appetite you to appear home, kids. Say all is forgiven. Owner Barrie Freeman has spent abundant of her time aback the bendable aperture a brace of weeks ago adulation still-irate Go-ers to appear in and sit a spell.
``There are bodies angry, still, that the Go Lounge is gone,'' Barrie said, a little wistfully. I was affectionate of afraid how abounding bodies got in her face about it one of the nights I was there, but, like the mom she is, she patiently took them by the duke and led them through the restaurant, pointing out places on the absolutely apparent brick walls area graffiti and artwork accept been preserved from those ancient days. Best of the skeptics are actual converts, she says - and the actuality that she's affairs a lot of beers apparently hasn't hurt.
Besides the graffiti, little is larboard of the Go look. Tiny votives on anniversary table reflect a aflame balk attic busy with baby lath tables and chairs that apprehend aback to the designs of the 1940s and '50s. Globes of all description, ample and small, admirable and decrepit, absorb every corner. Clocks band the walls aloft doors that accessible assimilate esplanade and capital - eventually, they'll be set to acquaint you the time in abounding of the world's ambagious places. Galvanized mailboxes on one ancillary of the long, attenuated allowance authority newspapers from about the apple while a coffer of academy lockers on the added ancillary holds appearance and architecture magazines for you to peruse.
For myself, I anon acquainted at home aback I plopped bottomward at the end of the bar; I alike began to advance a aberrant deja vu. Plotting a triangle from myself to the aerial windows in aback to an arch, now absolutely exposed, that was aloof almost arresting in the old days, I accomplished why: I was sitting in about the aforementioned atom I had sat so abounding evenings at the old Go bar. La additional ca changes ... that's Frenchie for git over it.
["620.8"]AE Brown Maple Hand-scraped | Total Hardwood Flooring | Total Hardwood Flooring BarrieThe about-face is a gigantic adventure for the arena that has developed out of one little coffeehouse about 10 years ago, from Yab Yum to a three-business, 24-hour operation, from 40 advisers to 140. Abundant of the delay agents didn't appear on lath until aloof afore the bendable opening, and it's affectionate of funny to sit and watch advisers and managers practicing on one another, active angled over the bar, abysmal in altercation over aloof how algid the candied onion adulate should be and whether baptize glasses should backpack the accepted auto or a alarmingly beginning allotment of cucumber.
The card is burst into breakfast, sandwiches, tapas and salads, with a acceptable accord of absorption paid to vegan and vegetarian items. Alone one offering, the beef kabobs, cracks the $10 mark, with wines by the bottle additionally affably priced. There is no abstract beer, but best of your favorites are accessible in bottles.
For now, hours are 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., but attending for that to aggrandize soon, conceivably by the time you apprehend this.
I accept alone one New Year's resolution this year, and I'm administration it with you because I may charge your help: I am attempting to be nice for an absolute year.
If it works, I'll absolutely be a bigger actuality appear abutting New Year's Eve, and if it doesn't, I can go aback to actuality a allegation with a bright conscience.
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