Hamilton Cuisine

[oldcoote]

"the wall to wall traffic has crippled the business"

That's my favourite. Reminds me of the unnamed James North restaurant that complained about SuperCrawl ruining his regular biz.

[LikeHamilton]

He is getting hammered in the comment section in the Spec.

[rousseau]

Good riddance. What an embarrassment to Hamilton that place was with its Confederate flag.

[movingtohamilton]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Good riddance. What an embarrassment to Hamilton that place was with its Confederate flag.

To be fair, a certain food truck in Hamilton was shamed into changing its "southern" branding.

[movingtohamilton]

Sorry for the cross-post. CHCH newscast tonight @ 6:00 will have a hatchet-job on the bus-only lane. HH BBQ owner will be featured along with others complaining about the "disaster and chaos".

[CaptainKirk]

delete

[CaptainKirk]

Originally Posted by HillStreetBlues

You’re a very compassionate person; you’re right that it’s a rough thing to go through. But I’m not sure it excuses making wild claims like that. He could add value to other business owners by being even the least bit honest about why he’s closing, blaming “traffic” is ridiculous.

All true, and could be just that he's doing what he may do best.

Publicity seeking.

He sure knows how to get media attention by using the Confederate flag, and tweeting about the bus lane causing him to lose his business in only 1 week.

[mattgrande]

Now he's saying that business was good, and his decision to close was "a business decision based on my view of the long-term future of downtown."

I can't stand this guy.

[sil]

Originally Posted by flar

The business couldn't have been too healthy to begin with if one or two weeks was enough to kill it.

It's such a ridiculous claim anyway. It seems to me that many people were avoiding downtown Hamilton before the bus lanes were added. Or simply passing through on their way somewhere else (i.e., not stopping to shop at the stores on King St., many of which seem to be cheque cashing, pawn shop, restaurants and variety stores serving downtown residents).

Flar if you actually stop and see there are more than pawn shops and cash places on king street, ohh right your one of those that just pass on through
have a good day friend....... ENJOY THE TRAFFIC

[drpgq]

Didn't he flame out in Burlington as well several years ago?

[ScreamingViking]

Unbelievable.

Where are the Canadian Awareness people going to meet now to talk about UN Agenda 21?

[coalminecanary]

With enough mayor contenders in the race he might get enough suburban votes on a "no bus lane" platform to become our very own rob ford!

[CaptainKirk]

Originally Posted by coalminecanary

With enough mayor contenders in the race he might get enough suburban votes on a "no bus lane" platform to become our very own rob ford!

Not if Bratina deamalgamates us before the end of council's term

[rousseau]

An apropos classic:

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[Jon Dalton]

I can't believe the spec gave Cameron Bailey another soapbox. That guy is the biggest tool ever. Even the most hard core opponents to the bus lane will not believe him. If people remember anything come election time, it will be his idiocity.

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by Jon Dalton

I can't believe the spec gave Cameron Bailey another soapbox. That guy is the biggest tool ever. Even the most hard core opponents to the bus lane will not believe him. If people remember anything come election time, it will be his idiocity.

Perhaps it's not a bad thing that they did. He's making himself look like more of a fool.

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by CaptainKirk

Not if Bratina deamalgamates us before the end of council's term

He's still got a year left to fulfill his lone election promise...

[thistleclub]

Big Top Restaurant's long-lost circus mural is back
(CBC Hamilton, Paul Wilson, Nov 29 2013)

It began when Helen Patel got out the spatula.

Helen runs the Big Top Restaurant, Main and Sherman. It opened in 1952, and Helen started working there at 12, some 30 years ago. She and husband Pank, a Hamilton cop, bought the place five years ago.

Helen had been itching to do some renovations. Finally, she could hold back no longer. She took a spatula to some wallpaper at the back of the restaurant. The work did not go well and she damaged the drywall.

His shift of protecting the city done for the day, Pank arrived. He saw he would have to pull some of that drywall right off.

When the first chunk came down, he saw the oddest thing. A clown’s leg. He pulled off more drywall. There was a carnival barker. A muscle man named Mousie Morris. And kids with candy floss. There was a whole circus under there.

Pank got on the phone to Helen. “You won’t believe what we’ve got here.”

Read it in full here.

[thistleclub]

Toma La: Newish quick-Portuguese place up by Upper James & Rymal. Anyone been?

[king10]

Originally Posted by thistleclub

Toma La: Newish quick-Portuguese place up by Upper James & Rymal. Anyone been?

i've been. its decent food at decent prices, nothing to write home about