Calgary Food, coffee, etc. - Page 397

googspecial · #**7921** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 10:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by bt04ku

Marda Loop. Pips Boardgame Cafe.

I'm kind of devastated that this is news to me...

Centro · #**7922** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 11:41 PM**

Just checked out Pips website, looks like they're just opening tomorrow.

Wonder what the demand is like for these. I remember stopping by one in Edmonton (on Whyte?) and it was empty.

nick.flood · #**7923** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 12:01 AM**

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*Stardust* · #**7924** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 5:41 AM**

The old Bensonhurst site is now called "Full Circle: Oyster and Pizza Bar" The signage looks like its straight out of the late 80's, cursive writing and all.

I don't want to judge based on looks, but I do not high hopes based on just walking by it.

MasterG · #**7925** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 7:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by *Stardust*

The old Bensonhurst site is now called "Full Circle: Oyster and Pizza Bar" The signage looks like its straight out of the late 80's, cursive writing and all.

I don't want to judge based on looks, but I do not high hopes based on just walking by it.

Is there really enough people wanting oysters to warrant it being a theme for a bar?

dazzlingdave88 · #**7926** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 2:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Centro

Just checked out Pips website, looks like they're just opening tomorrow.

Wonder what the demand is like for these. I remember stopping by one in Edmonton (on Whyte?) and it was empty.

I went to one in Halifax and it was packed! It was a weekend around midnight.

They charged a $5 cover and served booze and small snacks.

Riise · #**7927** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 3:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by nick.flood

Seems like it might be a tough concept to make a success out of. Not sure I want to be playing a game and having conversation with friends while all the tables around us are playing Yahtzee and charades. Sounds distracting. Then again the majority of restaurants now have the music so loud that you can't hear a word your friends say and they seem to survive I guess.

It's not a printing press for money but I think the right owners/operators can pull it off.

nick.flood · #**7928** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 6:19 PM**

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lubicon · #**7929** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 7:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by *Stardust*

What happened to Rusty Van Reddick? I miss all his reviews of new restaurants

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I was talking with him a couple months back, he decided it was time to move on from this forum.

Sorry to hear Rusty has left, hoping it is only temporary. I generally enjoyed his posts and he was a constant source of updates on eating establishments.

Chealion · #**7930** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 7:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by CCF

Another board game cafe coming to Calgary called 'boxcar' located in the Radio Block in Victoria Park.

So 3 in 3 months. Wow.

1. Pips Board Game Cafe - now open. 2015 33rd Ave. SW (Marda Loop)
2. Metal Galaxy Social Games and Bistro - January. 4625 Macleod Trail SW
3. Boxcar Cafe - February. 1215 1st. St SW (Beltline)

h/t http://connect-more.ca/content/blog for the other options.

Hope one or more of them can succeed.

MalcolmTucker · #**7931** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 8:06 PM**

Rents drop, more diverse offerings can open up?

Innersoul1 · #**7932** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 8:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by nick.flood

Seems like it might be a tough concept to make a success out of. Not sure I want to be playing a game and having conversation with friends while all the tables around us are playing Yahtzee and charades. Sounds distracting. Then again the majority of restaurants now have the music so loud that you can't hear a word your friends say and they seem to survive I guess.

Yeah totally. Similar to when all you want is some late night Chinese food and you get this:

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Spring2008 · #**7933** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 11:55 PM**

There was at least a few of these in TO by the university, all pretty busy.

IIRC about $2.50/hr to play games, tried a couple I haven't played in ages while downing beers. Not a bad time at all.

Good to see this trend make its way down here. Was in TO a couple months ago, remember thinking why don't we have these in cgy?

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Originally Posted by Chealion

So 3 in 3 months. Wow.

1. Pips Board Game Cafe - now open. 2015 33rd Ave. SW (Marda Loop)
2. Metal Galaxy Social Games and Bistro - January. 4625 Macleod Trail SW
3. Boxcar Cafe - February. 1215 1st. St SW (Beltline)

h/t http://connect-more.ca/content/blog for the other options.

Hope one or more of them can succeed.

Tarsus · #**7934** Posted **Dec 18, 2015, 8:23 PM**

Not all Muslims are strict about Halal meats. I'm Muslim and usually eat Halal, but not always. I know other Muslims who don't bother at all trying to stick to Halal meats.

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Originally Posted by Deepstar

Sorry dude, I thought you had mentioned being Muslim at one time, I didn't mean to out you. I know who you are in real life, and I know that you are of the Imaili faith, so therefore was surprised that you said you had eaten at Nando's, seeing as Nando's chicken isn't halal. Most Muslims don't eat at non-halal places, so I thought you were trying to pull a fast one. If you swear you've eaten there then i'll take your word for it.

BTW, I've eaten at Nando's and I like it. It's one of many great places to eat around the city.

Tarsus · #**7935** Posted **Dec 18, 2015, 8:28 PM**

That was me. I wasn't trying to tie you to murders half way around the world. It was a bit of sarcasm to show that some people must really care about it. In reality the reason for the murder was probably not about the Roti itself. In that part of the world it's not unusual that women are killed by fathers and brothers for any small reason. It's not a Mulsim thing either, it also happens in India all the time.

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Originally Posted by suburbia

I'm particularly saddened by someone else on this thread somehow connecting my posts to a murder in Pakistan. That's completely uneducated and uncalled for. It wasn't you, but I highly suspect that your moves to make this discussion about diversity of food to be about religion to have moved things along in that negative and divisive direction.

bt04ku · #**7936** Posted **Dec 19, 2015, 4:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chealion

So 3 in 3 months. Wow.

1. Pips Board Game Cafe - now open. 2015 33rd Ave. SW (Marda Loop)
2. Metal Galaxy Social Games and Bistro - January. 4625 Macleod Trail SW
3. Boxcar Cafe - February. 1215 1st. St SW (Beltline)

h/t http://connect-more.ca/content/blog for the other options.

Hope one or more of them can succeed.

The McLeod Trail one seems like it would be the least likely to succeed IMO (though it undoubtedly has the cheapest rent). This is the kind of place I'd try to put up near Banff Trail/16th Ave so you get the university traffic and a lot of people who don't have the space to have a lot of people playing board games but still want to be in a bar like setting.

CCF · #**7937** Posted **Dec 20, 2015, 10:51 PM**

Appears as if Rosso Coffee Roasters will be one of the tenants in the Torode project on 17th Ave.

Fuzz · #**7938** Posted **Dec 21, 2015, 3:21 PM**

This place:
https://goo.gl/maps/Y8gF6QqE72Q2
is going to be a Bakery/cafe. Can't remember the name, I ride by it every day, it starts with an "A" I think...They have been working at it for awhile, probably pouring tonnes of money into it for some reason. That space just never does well. I can't imagine this succeeding.

MalcolmTucker · #**7939** Posted **Dec 21, 2015, 4:22 PM**

Hey! Señor Frog's! What was it last?

Fuzz · #**7940** Posted **Dec 21, 2015, 4:30 PM**

Spice Cafe. I think Sahara before that. I forgot that was the old Señor Frog's! Sooo long ago....