New Downtown Businesses

[PonderInc]

Seems like everywhere I turn, there's a new business sprouting up downtown.

Some of them have their own threads (Yokozuno, Hunt Club, Zorbas, Trulas), but some don't.

Anybody been to:

Buns and Roses (111 W. 5th)
Utopia Club (520 W. 3rd, formerly Club Nostalgia, etc, etc)
IDL Ballroom (formerly Blank Slate)

Feels like I'm forgetting some.  What's that new bar south of Cains?

[Townsend]

What's that new bar south of Cains?

Crystal Pistol?  Good bar.

[TheTed]

Seems like everywhere I turn, there's a new business sprouting up downtown.

Some of them have their own threads (Yokozuno, Hunt Club, Zorbas, Trulas), but some don't.

Anybody been to:

Buns and Roses (111 W. 5th)
Utopia Club (520 W. 3rd, formerly Club Nostalgia, etc, etc)
IDL Ballroom (formerly Blank Slate)

Feels like I'm forgetting some.  What's that new bar south of Cains?

There's also the Backcreek Deli on Fifth west of Cheyenne.
http://www.backcreekdeli.com/

The IDL Ballroom, Enso and the Electric Circus are the names of those three interconnected bars there at First and Detroit.

The Crystal Pistol is great. Great atmosphere with the old-timey cowboy stuff on the walls. And you can't beat $2 Guinness drafts.

The bar in the Mayo is also great. Very classy and up there with the best classy hotel bars I've ever been to. Plus they have Marshall Wheat on tap, along with a few other good draft beers.

Deadtown is now called the Downtown Lounge. Nothing special or remarkable about that place.

Buns and Roses...meh...another mediocre downtown sandwich shop.

I've given up hope on ever getting a great sandwich in Tulsa. There's mediocre, and there's bad. This place is mediocre. There are great delis all over the country. But none in Tulsa. Dilly Deli is the most disappointing to me. Elliott Nelson travels to find the best from all over the country, but he obviously didn't travel to any great delis when researching for the Dilly Deli.

[FOTD]

There's also the Backcreek Deli on Fifth west of Cheyenne.
http://www.backcreekdeli.com/

The IDL Ballroom, Enso and the Electric Circus are the names of those three interconnected bars there at First and Detroit.

The Crystal Pistol is great. Great atmosphere with the old-timey cowboy stuff on the walls. And you can't beat $2 Guinness drafts.

The bar in the Mayo is also great. Very classy and up there with the best classy hotel bars I've ever been to. Plus they have Marshall Wheat on tap, along with a few other good draft beers.

Deadtown is now called the Downtown Lounge. Nothing special or remarkable about that place.

Buns and Roses...meh...another mediocre downtown sandwich shop.

I've given up hope on ever getting a great sandwich in Tulsa. There's mediocre, and there's bad. This place is mediocre. There are great delis all over the country. But none in Tulsa. Dilly Deli is the most disappointing to me. Elliott Nelson travels to find the best from all over the country, but he obviously didn't travel to any great delis when researching for the Dilly Deli.

Well Teddy, looks to me like liquor is your thing, but Dilly deli is not bad....their pastrami and corned beef seem in line with deli's everywhere.

Good luck to the three newest reincarnations at 1st and Detroit ... they'll need it. Lucky they have the D Fest coffers to cover their behinds. (Too many venues chasing too few entertainment dollars).

[TheTed]

Well Teddy, looks to me like liquor is your thing, but Dilly deli is not bad....their pastrami and corned beef seem in line with deli's everywhere.

Good luck to the three newest reincarnations at 1st and Detroit ... they'll need it. Lucky they have the D Fest coffers to cover their behinds. (Too many venues chasing too few entertainment dollars).

A bad deli in New York City would blow away anything in Tulsa. Hell, it doesn't even have to be NYC. Try Shapiro's in Indianapolis.
The Dilly Deli is nothing compared to this.
http://www.rocklandlifestyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/7148-400x424.jpg

[sgrizzle]

Well Teddy, looks to me like liquor is your thing, but Dilly deli is not bad....their pastrami and corned beef seem in line with deli's everywhere.

Good luck to the three newest reincarnations at 1st and Detroit ... they'll need it. Lucky they have the D Fest coffers to cover their behinds. (Too many venues chasing too few entertainment dollars).

As I understand it they will not be operating all 3 every weekend. IDL ballroom will be a meeting space during the week, at night the three will operate more like flytrap.

[FOTD]

A bad deli in New York City would blow away anything in Tulsa. Hell, it doesn't even have to be NYC. Try Shapiro's in Indianapolis.
The Dilly Deli is nothing compared to this.
http://www.rocklandlifestyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/7148-400x424.jpg

Those sandwiches that size go for $18 in NYC and yes, the rye pictured is better than what you get in Dilly.

Bet if you negotiated it, the Dilly would create "The Ted" and it would be very similar to the one pictured and priced accordingly.

[FOTD]

As I understand it they will not be operating all 3 every weekend. IDL ballroom will be a meeting space during the week, at night the three will operate more like flytrap.

Hopefully, the new proprietors will invest in sound because the big room has the worst sound infrastructure in town for a mid size room.

[carltonplace]

Lots of activity in the Brady District. The warehouse on Main accross from the empty Griffin Communications lot has had a lot of work lately

New Restaurant coming at 114 N Boston: "Hey Mambo"

[DM]

Ive been to Utopia Club once. It was alright. Nothing special and not too many people there for a saturday night.

[TheTed]

Ive been to Utopia Club once. It was alright. Nothing special and not too many people there for a saturday night.

That place always seemed like it had lots of potential. I haven't been to its current incarnation yet, but every time I've been there before it seemed like it really needed somebody with a vision to make something of it. Previous owners seemed to have little interest in making it great.

It doesn't help that it's hidden away from the rest of the Blue Dome district.

[PonderInc]

It's in a great building, but suffers severely from being an island in a sea of asphalt.  If this building were part of an intact block (instead of the lone survivor of a German Luftwaffe bombing mission...oh wait, we destroyed these ourselves...), it would have more opportunities for creating synergy and success.

[RecycleMichael]

There's also the Backcreek Deli on Fifth west of Cheyenne.
http://www.backcreekdeli.com/

I went to this place on Friday. The chicken salad sandwich I had was good and it was under $5. I will go back whenever I am in that part of downtown.

They had about six people working and about five customers at 12:15, however. I don't know if they will make it when they are only open for lunch.

[sgrizzle]

It's in a great building, but suffers severely from being an island in a sea of asphalt.  If this building were part of an intact block (instead of the lone survivor of a German Luftwaffe bombing mission...oh wait, we destroyed these ourselves...), it would have more opportunities for creating synergy and success.

I vote we adopt that story.

Downtown Tulsa was the loan region in the continental US to fall victim to german heavy bombers.

[Townsend]

I vote we adopt that story.

Downtown Tulsa was the loan region in the continental US to fall victim to german heavy bombers.

I see museum and tourist opportunities splattered all over this.

We'd get crazy amounts of federal assistance if we can make this fly.

We need a good back story.  Who's got one?.

Edit: we need to leave the Boulder bridge the way it is...that way we can say it's our "bridge of rememberence".