[Glenco]

A pub should do very well at Stadium Yards, given that Elks games are literally across the street.

8 games a year. I don’t think that is a very good business model

 

[Tropical]

A pub and a bakery is not an either/or proposition. I can easily envision both business types thriving here.

 

[_urbanite]

Tell that to the places on beer street that are packed often.

Those do well because they're all close to each other and have created their own district. Same reason why the pubs on Whyte Ave still draw people.

 

[_urbanite]

Perhaps younger generations don't drink as much but they crave community spaces as much as anyone. Frank's Pub over on 99th seems to be doing really well, particularly as functioning as a 3rd space to meet up with friends. Went there a few times this summer on random week days and it was packed every time. I could totally see something like that do well here.

Plus the End Zone pub happily existed only a stones throw from here for ages.

I knew the owner of the End Zone. Me and some friends ran DJ events there years ago for a few months because he was desperately trying to get more than just the VLT crowd in. A side from Elks home games and the few concerts that Commonwealth has each year, that place was dead 90% of the time

 

[northlands]

I knew the owner of the End Zone. Me and some friends ran DJ events there years ago for a few months because he was desperately trying to get more than just the VLT crowd in. A side from Elks home games and the few concerts that Commonwealth has each year, that place was dead 90% of the time

To be fair, as you'd probably know, the last ~decade of its existence it was ROUGH in there and the food was awful. Hard to know what to attribute to area vs quality of offering. Likely both.

When I lived in Virginia Park, some friends and I would walk to the End Zone on occasion since there was nothing else around. But by the mid 2010s we finally decided it wasn't even worth going because it was badly rundown inside, lowkey smelled like piss near the bar, and there often was a guy out front/beside the daycare selling drugs to people who'd go in the washrooms to use. And we loved going to the Strat on Whyte so it's not like we didn't love a dive bar but there had to be some redeeming factors and the End Zone sure didn't offer many.

 

[Gronk!]

I'm hoping a pub at Stadium Yards would be more akin to Kelly's or Sherlock Holmes. Not higher-end, but nothing trashy like the End Zone. A pub that is warmly welcomed by local residents, but doesn't wake them up in the middle of the night.

 

[Avenuer]

I'm hoping a pub at Stadium Yards would be more akin to Kelly's or Sherlock Holmes. Not higher-end, but nothing trashy like the End Zone. A pub that is warmly welcomed by local residents, but doesn't wake them up in the middle of the night.

Give me a northside Duggan's, please and thank you!

 

[Gronk!]

Give me a northside Duggan's, please and thank you!

Never been to Duggan's. All I know is their pub is hidden away in the French Quarter.

 

[mcr]

Never been to Duggan's. All I know is their pub is hidden away in the French Quarter.

Highly, highly recommend. Fantastic little local pub, good food, great patio out back. Not a dive, but it's authentic and you can tell it's been there a while. Love that place