New restaurant in Canton?
Rob just sent me this e-mail. I called a friend who lives in Canton and knows a lot about local restaurants, but she hadn't heard anything. Maybe it's not a restaurant. Anybody know?
I just moved to Canton and while walking my dog the other day, I noticed what seems to be a new restaurant going in at the corner of S Conkling and Dillon. It seems to be quite a unique structure with a balcony over the sidewalk on the second floor. Do you have any idea what will be going in there? I noticed yesterday a lot of kitchen equipment being moved in...does that mean I have a new place to try to eat at soon?
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Is this the same place referred to here: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/dining/reviews/blog/2008/05/clearing_off_my_virtual_desk_f.html
Looks like the same spot on a map.
I guess she didn't have her Sweet Sixteen party there. EL
Posted by: Bob UU | May 15, 2009 3:40 PM
Hmmm. It does look highly suspicious: Street View
Posted by: Bob UU | May 15, 2009 3:43 PM
I saw them moving the giant fridge in yesterday morning as I drove by. I thought it might be a restaurant. If it's not, I want to befriend and use the kitchen of whomever will live there.
Posted by: Summer | May 15, 2009 3:57 PM
I live up the street. Lots of work has been done in the past two weeks. This week I saw delivery trucks with kitchen equipment. Shouldn't be long now.
Posted by: Arthur | May 15, 2009 5:04 PM
That's the space that was once occupied by Gallagher's. It will definitely be a new restaurant, but I'm not sure if they've decided upon a name as of yet.
Posted by: Christopher | May 15, 2009 5:53 PM
There's a property available at Dillon and Potomac if anybody is interested in doing an "Alice's Restaurant" sort of thing. (Needs a lot of work though!)
FWIW, the church that became the original "Alice's Restaurant" was a mission congregation of St. James', Great Barrington (Western Massachusetts). The Rector of the parish then, The Rev'd Canon Dr. A. Pierce Middleton, has a cameo role playing the bishop at the reenacted deconsecration in Arlo Guthrie's film. He's in his 90's and now lives in Sykesville. Before a late vocation to ordained ministry, he was the Director of Research for Colonial Williamsburg.
The movie, by the way, is worth another look if you haven't seen it since the 70's. It stands as a remarkably tight morality play.
(See ... this is the only blog you'll ever need!)
Posted by: MD Canon (On one last Trip to Garrett County) | May 16, 2009 10:01 PM
ah, that's where the old gallagher's (lesbian bar) was.
i'm glad to see that someone will be doing something with that space.
Posted by: kd | May 18, 2009 12:08 PM
Wait a second...since when is S. Conklin in Canton?
According to the ADC map, it is, but you know me and neighborhoods. Let me know if I'm wrong and where it actually is. EL
Posted by: Lissa | May 18, 2009 12:30 PM
Elizabeth, I believe you that S. Conklin is in Canton on some official map, but 20 years ago, it wasn't.
I live near a lot of old residents who love to tell me, the respectful foreigner, about when Highlandtown covered the entire south side of Patterson Park, beers were cheap and people cleaned their steps properly.
I nod a lot.
If I never had to mention the name of another neighborhood, I would be happy. EL
Posted by: Lissa | May 18, 2009 2:04 PM
I used to go to Gallagher's, but I got tired of all the flying watermelon.
Posted by: Robert of Cross Keys | May 18, 2009 2:39 PM
RoCK, I never would have guessed you were a lesbian!
Posted by: Joyce W. | May 18, 2009 2:52 PM
Wait, you used to go to a dyke bar, RoCK?
Posted by: Lissa | May 18, 2009 2:57 PM
RoCK, at least some of us got your Gallagher/watermelon joke.
Posted by: Hal Laurent | May 18, 2009 3:31 PM
Lissa and Joyce W.
Gallagher was a watermelon smashing comedian.
Posted by: RayRay | May 18, 2009 3:43 PM
Joyce, definitely made me chuckle with that one! Good old Gallaghers. Brings back a lot of memories, unfortunately not all good!
Posted by: Trixie | May 18, 2009 3:52 PM
D-Y-K-E, dyke...B-Y-K-E, byke?! NOO, B-I-K-E!!!!
RoCK- Did everyone wear roller skates too?
Posted by: Neighbor | May 18, 2009 4:07 PM
Gallagher wasn't that funny. However, the mental image of RoCK in a women's bar is, so I'm sticking with that interpretation.
Line dancing, of course.
Posted by: Lissa | May 18, 2009 6:10 PM
I've been outed. I'm a lesbian trapped in man's body.
Posted by: Robert of Cross Keys | May 18, 2009 6:10 PM
Lissa, I agree that Gallagher wasn't that funny. That doesn't get you off the hook for missing the joke, though. :-)
Posted by: Hal Laurent | May 18, 2009 9:11 PM
RoCK and Roll. Somebody's going to lose his Republican Party credentials.
Posted by: Laura Lee | May 18, 2009 9:35 PM
I miss a lot of jokes, Hal. You know what they say about lesbians, after all.
Posted by: Lissa | May 18, 2009 10:13 PM
It's ok Lissa if you didn't get the Gallagher joke. I didn't know that Gallagher's was a lesbian bar. When you made the lesbian reference I wondered if "flying watermelons" was some kind of inside reference that I inadvertently used.
Posted by: Robert of Cross Keys | May 18, 2009 10:57 PM
LL, let's hope I don't lose my credentials. I have quite a few years in, and i'm almost eligible for the pension. If I am forced out now I'll only get the 15 years of service award, which I believe is a toaster oven.
Posted by: Robert of Cross Keys | May 18, 2009 11:08 PM
Hal, that's whey we need you, Interpreter of Jokes!
Posted by: Joyce W. | May 19, 2009 5:51 AM
Now we must turn "flying watermelons" into some kind of insider reference. Unfortunately, the only ones I can think of are Hooteresque.
Posted by: Lissa | May 19, 2009 6:34 AM
I grew up in the 800 block of S. Conkling (many years ago) and the area was called Highlandtown, but went to school at Canton #230, which was one block to the east on Highland Ave.
Posted by: Mary in York | May 19, 2009 6:56 AM
You know what they say about lesbians, after all.
No, what do they say?
Posted by: Hal Laurent | May 19, 2009 7:36 AM
We're famous for not having a sense of humour, Hal. For example, "How many lesbians does it take to change a lightbulb?" "That's not funny."
Posted by: Lissa | May 19, 2009 8:21 AM
Canon - that brought tidbit brought on such a panoramic flashback that I can't even begin to share it. I had to go outside for a minute to reassemble. Faces I haven't thought of for 40 years.... Wow.
Posted by: Eve | May 19, 2009 9:15 AM