Here we go:

Top Ten jinxed locations.
Top Ten "success challenged" locations
Top Ten "now you see it, now you don't locations

Wow. These are excellent. EL

How about Top Ten Revolving Restaurant Locations

Top 10 Restaurant Turnover Locations? Then you will get the pastry fans!

re-restaurants

did this turn into top 10 ways to title the list?

How about Top Ten Revolving Restaurant Locations

I can think of the old Holiday Inn rooftop restaurant. What would the other nine be? :-)

I vote for Phyllis's suggestion.

And I nominate the corner of Charles and Biddle, although the current occupant, Sammy's Trattoria, seems to have hung on for a minute.

I was going to offer Top Ten Revolving Doors, but Phyllis beat me to it.

I think that Susan's first suggestion - Top Ten jinxed locations - really says it all.

I'm loving "now you see it, now you don't" that Susan suggested!

Susan's got the gist; I like "jinxed" because one can conquer a jinx.

"Success-challenged" is a tad PC for me, and "now you see it, now you don't" tells me the restaurant should be named Brigadoon.

One week from tomorrow, Sandboxers, is the First Annual D@L Bloggers' Party. We have settled on Kooper's in Fells Point. (Sam Sessa's silence about his rooftop is deafening.) All we need to decide on is time. Next week, we'll begin to compile a Guest List. Perhaps we our beloved leader will provide us with a thread next week for just such an endeavor.

If we're going to do the brunch, I think between anytime after about 11:30 would be good. What was the timeframe for the brunch, again?

I think it would be interesting to hear about locations that were revolving doors that now have a successful restaurant. What made it finally work?

I'll try to incorporate that into the list, or at least open it for discussion. Good idea. EL

I know Red Fish seems to have made it for a while (but didn't it close once and reopen as Red Fish again?), but that spot on Boston Street seems as though it has to make the list. I wish I could be more help with former names, but I know it has been at least 3 places in the past 8 or so years.

I suggest the name "Top Ten Try, Try Again Locations".

And I haven't lived in Baltimore long enough to know many of them. I'd nominate the current Sammy's Trattoria location.

VoR has to get an award for the most droll of comments. Now that it has been said, it is so obvious, and yet ...

How about a little props thrown my way for the idea?? I feel unloved! :-(

You get that on The Day, when you'll get 10,000 page views. :-) EL

How about "Top Ten Ghosts of Retaurants Past."

Michelle--

Red Fish has been fairly susccessful at that location, and it seemed to break the jinx of that building.

But it wasn't the fact that the previous restaurants kept changing. In fact, it was only restaurant, it was called, Weber's. But it kept closing down and re-opening for whatever rason. But each time it would still reopen as Weber's.

And speaking of "Webers", the company who makes Weber Grills opened a reestaurant a while back in Chicago, where EVERYTHING is cooked on an open Weber charcoal grill. The House specialties of course are steaks and burgers.

I'm sure they've opened up a bunch of diferrent locations, I'm sure it's just a matter of time before one comes around this way.

Several weeks ago there was a discussion of how long it took for posts to be uploaded by the blog software. Times were often in the twenty second range.

Whilst our Esteemed Leader (aka EL) was off on "Vacation" the time was only a few seconds. Now its back up again. Coincidence ... ?

Anyone else notice a change in the upload time?

Now this is a scary thought. I hate the idea that things work better when I'm not around. EL

I noticed that as well, OF. At the time I put it down to the fact that some regulars took "vacation" as well.

Speaking of regulars, where ARE those two: OMG and VDP?

Mr. OF, you're absolutely right! While Elizabeth was motoring cross-country a post took maybe 2-3 seconds to be acknowledged; now it takes 21-23 seconds on average. Sigh.

Mr. Fart: (somehow my mother would not approve of that salutation, my father: fohalol) [Now this is spooky (as Dame Edna would say): my magic letter for this post is F]

You are right, posting times this morning are certainly up, again. I attribute it to the fact that the submissions are higher than they were during the Dark Time.

FYI: whilst it took a couple of minutes and 2 tries to submit my last comment, our All Glorious Leader got it posted in mere seconds. Go Big Ace!

May I suggest that you start your list (whatever you may call it) with the building at 885 N. Howard Street.

Currently, it is Night of the Cookers.

Formerly, it was:
Gambrino's Spanaish restaurant
Southern Blues
Brittons

None of whom lasted terrbly long.
I'm holding out hope for NotC!

Was that Howard Street location also Leilanis at some point?

Yes. EL

Here are a few more...

The space that was the old City Diner on Charles Street across from Gampy's has been at least four restaurants, however it might be vacant now.

This might be more bar-esque, but the location where Sean Bolands used to be, then became Clayton's Tavern, and is now Mugsy's.

And who could leave out the ever revolving restaurants in Harbor View, from South Harbor Tavern to Lillies to Tabrizi's.

Does anyone remember the Buttery (if you do, it might not be best to admit that), that became another restaurant after the Buttery and now sits vacant.

There's probably also a trend in the Inner Harbor where you could look at Sfuzzi (corner of Pratt and Calvert) which then became Legal Seafoods and is now vacant, Planet Hollywood which then became M&S Grill, Tex Mex grill which became something that I can't remember right now, Paolo's which became Big Kahuna.

The one question is what is being used as a qualifier in these decisions? For example, when Pazza Luna was sold recently for the first time, it was unable to stay open for various rumored reasons with the new owners. Once the ownership group that is involved with Sotto Sopra bought it, it seems to be running well and has a bright future. That restaurant could be said to have had a revolving door of owners, but the same name...hmmm..curious.....

Last but not least is the spot at the corner of Pratt and Howard which I believe used to be called Dean and Dad's (maybe, I can't remember), then became Max's at Camden Yards, and now seems to be thriving as California Tortilla.

Okay...I'm done!

Didn't Connie Crabtree have a restaurant at Harbourview before Lillies? I think that there may have been another one in there as well.

I hate to scoop myself, but, yes, it was Pier 500. I have the advantage of archives. EL

The restaurant at 885 North Howard would probably win the longevity award. I remember lunching there in the early 60's, though I can't remember the name. Before that it was an upscale grocery that had what was probably Baltimore's best wine shop at the time. It was run by a guy named Hank Levy, who would not admit any decent wine came from anywhere but France but deigned to sell what was then Maryland's only decent wine, the old original Boordy's made by Phil Wagner. Jazz fans of a certain age would also remember Hank fondly.

Is that Hank Levy the Stan Kenton alumnus who later taught jazz at Towson State? If so, I had no idea he used to be in the grocery/wine business.