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Word on the street is that the Bar at Shannon Restaurant has been shut down by the municipality. The restaurant is still open serving food but no alcohol.

Supposedly they were told officially they were not having a great enough percentage of food sales to total sales. Unofficially it seems that the problem might be worked out if certain "arrangements" were made.

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Pura Vida
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex Levine

I do not know, i did notice that the bar on the corner there has been closed for a while. Any intel? It is a great location.


BKTUNA
I am never going home

Bar on the corner was the Cafe Morazan which catered to mainly a gay crowd. Shannon is next door, closer to the HDR, that was a Chinese restaurant. The Shannon restaurant is still open they just can't serve booze..

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Pura Vida
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex Levine

Do you think the official letter from the municipality indicated the name of the person they will have to pay off to reinstate their license?

They were one club sandwich short of their quota

BKTUNA
I am never going home

That's kind of like Pacoloco..... One sandwich short of a picnic basket !!!

MG

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Perhaps someone forgot to give a local official his change...

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Pura Vida...enjoying life to the fullest...

I was driving by last night around 7pm and the owner was locking the place up.

I walked by yesterday afternoon. There were people at the tables eating and a couple of people sitting at the bar. I didn't notice if the bar people were drinking or just sitting.

I had a guiness there last wednesday ( five days ago.) Unless something has changed since then , you can drink there.

Paco wrote:



Hey Paco, the Shannon Restaurant just called and said you can return to CR now to pick up your order.

I ate lunch there yesterday ( monday) and they still cannot serve alcohol.

I talked to the owner about the problem . It is a license problem, the authorities say it is more of a bar than a restaurant so until further inspections are completed ,, no booze.

It may be days or it may be weeks or even months. He doesn't know and he claims they are not looking for bribes.

"And he claims that they are not looking for bribes." Lol this is ther funny post of the week.

I do not know the owners of Shannons, but they must be new to CR biz 101. He should have his lawyer offer a "consulting" fee to whoever is in charge. Then it will magically be a restaurant again.

BKTUNA
I am never going home

The owner of Shannon's is a street wise Irishman, via New York, who knows how to be diplomatic and not put his business out on street.

Lets just leave it that.

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Pura Vida
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex Levine

Out of curiosity, does anybody know what the required percentage of alcohol to food sales are in SJ?

I reside in a town of 10k in the heart of Dallas, we have over 180 restaurants/drinking establishments (yes 180) our breakdown here is 60/40 food to alcohol, you would be amazed at how one can program your point of sale software to indicate food sales