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re: OT drinking baws, Pelican House (Baton Rouge) closing its doors
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:04 am to Sun God
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:04 am to Sun God
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The layout sucked for a bar and they waited until it was much too late to convert it to a restaurant
Pelican House always seemed to me to be a shittier version of The Bulldog
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Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:06 am to Will Cover
oh and F chef Gavin Jobe
I love local restaurants. Your snobby attitude was reflected in your food and service
I love local restaurants. Your snobby attitude was reflected in your food and service
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:06 am to Will Cover
Until these "seasonal, local, creative" restaurants have endless breadsticks or a buffet where I can get all the mashed potatoes and chicken nuggets a man of my appetite needs I will remain a patron of the chains. This guy sounds like a philistine
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:07 am to Will Cover
That place never had a clue what it wanted to be from the jump. The owner might have a point about BR having a chain restaurant problem. But Pelican House didn't do enough to fix that trend.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:08 am to Will Cover
Blaming the customers for your shitty business?
Maybe you should offer a better product or service than the competition. Thats kind of what business is about chief. Expecting customers to come to certain establishment strictly because its owned by a local is a mindset that explains alot about why this guy failed.
Maybe you should offer a better product or service than the competition. Thats kind of what business is about chief. Expecting customers to come to certain establishment strictly because its owned by a local is a mindset that explains alot about why this guy failed.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:10 am to adamb2151
If someone wants to eat at a chain that is their right and you can’t bitch and moan when you can’t attract them. The chain is doing something you’re not, whether you like it or not. I don’t love chains, but many of them wrongfully get blamed for shitty businesses failing. They didn’t become a chain by sucking.
This post was edited on 2/27/18 at 10:11 am
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:11 am to Will Cover
I like the chef, his other restaurant in Covington, Meribo, is great, but Pelican House wasn't good as a beer place or restaurant. It's down the road from our office, so we've been there several times. The menu sounded good, but the food was always average at best. It used to be downright awful, and it actually improved to be average. From a food perspective, it didn't hold a candle to any of the places it wanted to be like, which I imagine were places like...City Pork, Olive or Twist, Willie's. The bartenders were too surly, and they were always out of the top selections of beer. Food needed to be better, and the bar needed to be managed much more effectively. Sucks that they closed. Can't wait for the inevitable Longhorn Steakhouse or O'Charley's to take a swing at that spot.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:11 am to Will Cover
I went once, food was blah, waitress wasn't showing enough cleavage
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:11 am to Will Cover
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"Stop flocking to chain restaurants. Stop asking chefs to change their menus, and stop accepting mediocrity. Ask for seasonal, local (when it makes sense), creative food, and embrace the chefs and restaurants who deliver it to you
so he's asking people to cater to a chef's culinary vision while ignoring their own preference and be willing to pay more for it?
Stop blaming the consumer for your own failure
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:12 am to Tigeralum2008
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oh and F chef Gavin Jobe
Agreed. I went twice, I am their core customer as I eat out four or five times a week, and both times the service was so beyond abysmal that I never got to eat. BOTH TIMES I left after one drink as I couldn't get served.
That might just be a problem there Chef Jobe.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:12 am to Jones
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Plenty of places don't make it in nola. Hell, it's arguably harder to keep a place open there than BR. Plenty of BR places offer what you said they don't
BR has a lot of locally owned restaurants now. It's night and day when compared to the 80s & 90s. There's plenty of good food here. Some make it and some don't.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:12 am to Will Cover
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Baton Rouge, my hometown, I love you, but I implore you to raise your culinary standards
He can totally go frick himself with this self-righteous comment. He had a really nice letter going until this moment.
Don't blame your problems (whatever they may be) on the people of baton rouge, baw.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:13 am to Will Cover
I'd you have a good product people will come to your restaurant. Chains aren't the problem. They are merely competition
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:13 am to Will Cover
Terrible location, over priced and overrated. Good riddance.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:14 am to icegator337
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Stop blaming the consumer for your own failure
Right! If chef's would get back to the basics and make edible food, rather than offering a special of "Turtleback soup with a sweet demi-glaze made from Porcupine quills," we might want to try out these places.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:14 am to Jones
bullshite. New Orleans has Baton Rouge beat on restaurants that aren't chains, and have been succesful for years.
I mean, it's really not even close.
I mean, it's really not even close.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:15 am to Will Cover
honestly, it needs to go back to being a chain.
Butting up to the interstate, people traveling\passing through can see it and decide to stop and eat there.
Butting up to the interstate, people traveling\passing through can see it and decide to stop and eat there.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:17 am to oVo
quote:It really wasn't a terrible location. Citiplace has slowly gotten better over time and being that close to corporate & I-10 should have given this place an advantage.
Terrible location, over priced and overrated. Good riddance.
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:17 am to JBeam
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That place never had a clue what it wanted to be from the jump. The owner might have a point about BR having a chain restaurant problem. But Pelican House didn't do enough to fix that trend.
BR LAUNCHED three successful full-service chains and one Fast service chain
1. Walkon's
2. Chimes
3. Las Palmas
Raising Canes
If BR was addicted to major national chains those businesses would have ceased to exist.
Where's the best steak in town? Some would argue at Doe's Eat Place... It certainly is NOT Fleming's or Ruth's Chris
Posted on 2/27/18 at 10:17 am to LSUvegasbombed
As far as corporate goes, they are in a good area. I hope my company moves our location towards LSU
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