05-03-2017, 02:22 PM
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Farm Team Player
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Calgary
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Spoke with the owner of Full Circle, Josh, confirmed they just didn't get enough people through the door. He wasn't able to collect a dime himself in the past year, and stayed open as long as they could.
Previous to FCP was Benhurst pizza? I believe? Same fate. Just not a great location I think. Not nearly enough foot traffic, crappy parking. I hope someone else doesn't try opening a restaurant there.
So long Josh and Amelia, cool people. Hope to see them around with something else.
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05-03-2017, 02:33 PM
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#22
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Franchise Player
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I think "Pizza and oyster bar" Would keep me away. Sounds like a terrible match.
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05-03-2017, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Weitz
I think "Pizza and oyster bar" Would keep me away. Sounds like a terrible match.
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It's a great pairing.
It's no "Pizza pops and fish sticks" like Oiler fans are used to, but we do our best down here.
Last edited by PepsiFree; 05-03-2017 at 03:36 PM.
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05-03-2017, 02:52 PM
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#24
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Franchise Player
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How would I know what sort of pizza places they have up in Edmonton?
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05-03-2017, 02:57 PM
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#25
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by jayswin
What the hell is the beer vault? I'm intrigued.
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I didn't want to toot my own horn without getting permission from Bingo/Photon first. I will be posting something official about it soon in the other forum, along with the requisite CP discount. 
www.thebeervault.ca
Instagram
Twitter
Facebook
I'm proud to announce that my partners and myself have just opened The Beer Vault, Calgary's first beer-focused retail destination, a store that just does beer like Calgary hasn't seen before.
Our goal is to have the best cold selection of beer in Calgary with enormous diversity but also a focus on local breweries. We want to support Alberta-made beer with a huge selection of local product from our neighboring craft breweries.
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05-03-2017, 03:03 PM
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#26
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I didn't want to toot my own horn without getting permission from Bingo/Photon first. I will be posting something official about it soon in the other forum, along with the requisite CP discount.
www.thebeervault.ca
Instagram
Twitter
Facebook
I'm proud to announce that my partners and myself have just opened The Beer Vault, Calgary's first beer-focused retail destination, a store that just does beer like Calgary hasn't seen before.
Our goal is to have the best cold selection of beer in Calgary with enormous diversity but also a focus on local breweries. We want to support Alberta-made beer with a huge selection of local product from our neighboring craft breweries.
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Whaaaaaaat?
Hmmmm next Friday I feel like I should swing by after I take my hockey equipment to get cleaned.
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05-03-2017, 03:04 PM
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#27
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Crackmacs
Full Circle Pi was a pizza and oyster bar located on 17th Ave SW. A guy named Josh owned it, with his wife (can't remember her name right now). It was pretty good. Location wasn't really the best.
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If a local, crafty, artisan, intimate pizza place with great food and setting on 17th Ave doesn't succeed, I don't know what will 
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05-03-2017, 03:06 PM
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#28
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Isn't that just a bunch of boring chains? Keg, Boston Pizza, Earls, etc.
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A Cosa Vida is opening there- Awesome Mexican deli style restaurant- Looking forward to this as 130th doesn't really have a lot of great affordable stuff. Muldoons used to be good but has gone WAY downhill in the past couple of years.
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05-03-2017, 03:07 PM
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#29
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by troutman
Are You Ready for the Foodie Court?
http://www.gq.com/story/david-chang-food-court
Now the food court is about to get even tastier—and a whole lot healthier and higher-end than a sugar bomb the size of a pizza.
That concept might sound weird to Americans, but elsewhere in the world, fancy food halls have long been culinary meccas. Mostly in Europe: Fauchon in Paris, Dallmayr in Munich, and the holiest of delicious temples, Peck in Milan. (Mario Carbone of Parm and Carbone introduced me to it, and seriously, it's the best place ever created.) In 2010, New York got its first taste of this when Mario Batali opened a U.S. branch of Eataly, the Italian Thunderdome. Five years later there are Eatalys all over the planet, and now everyone wants to open a single-cuisine department store/food court.
I'm starting to see versions of this in more and more of our big cities, from the thirty-plus-vendor Grand Central Market in downtown L.A. to Gotham West Market in New York City, with its amazingly diverse spread of tacos, ramen, and everything in between. Another prime N.Y.C. example is Hudson Eats at Brookfield Place, the bustling new food court in Lower Manhattan near my editor's office, where he worked on this column while eating an insanely good grilled cheese with butternut squash and sage brown butter from Little Muenster.
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Another great example of this would be the Alder Street food truck pod in Portland, Or.
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05-03-2017, 03:08 PM
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#30
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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'Tasting room' eh? I may have to test that out...
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05-03-2017, 03:11 PM
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#31
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Locke
'Tasting room' eh? I may have to test that out...
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My tasting cardboard box wasn't good enough for ya? 
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05-03-2017, 03:19 PM
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#32
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Do you have gluten free beers?
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05-03-2017, 03:22 PM
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#33
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I didn't want to toot my own horn without getting permission from Bingo/Photon first. I will be posting something official about it soon in the other forum, along with the requisite CP discount.
www.thebeervault.ca
Instagram
Twitter
Facebook
I'm proud to announce that my partners and myself have just opened The Beer Vault, Calgary's first beer-focused retail destination, a store that just does beer like Calgary hasn't seen before.
Our goal is to have the best cold selection of beer in Calgary with enormous diversity but also a focus on local breweries. We want to support Alberta-made beer with a huge selection of local product from our neighboring craft breweries.
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Intriguing!
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05-03-2017, 03:22 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Do you have gluten free beers?
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Yes of course, PM'd - don't want to hijack the thread. Restaurant closures suck and I know the pain of small business all too well. My heart goes out to Full Circle. I don't know the particulars of Janice Beaton but if she closed farm and then tried to open up Mabou claiming it was a separate company...it sounds like financial hardship or some creditor issue. Even if there was any shadiness, it's pretty tough out there.
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05-03-2017, 03:26 PM
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#35
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Yes of course, PM'd - don't want to hijack the thread. Restaurant closures suck and I know the pain of small business all too well. My heart goes out to Full Circle. I don't know the particulars of Janice Beaton but if she closed farm and then tried to open up Mabou claiming it was a separate company...it sounds like financial hardship or some creditor issue. Even if there was any shadiness, it's pretty tough out there.
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Get that thread started please, there are many things to talk about in it!
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05-03-2017, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Weitz
How would I know what sort of pizza places they have up in Edmonton?
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My apologies Weitz! Edited for clarity.
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05-03-2017, 04:37 PM
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A Fiddler Crab
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Chicago
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I managed restaurants in Calgary for three years and happily fled that industry. No one should ever open a restaurant. Really, no one ever should - it's always a terrible idea. Sometimes it works out, but seriously, ask anyone who owns or has owned a restaurant: terrible idea.
All of us who love to eat out should be thankful to the dummies who make the bad decision to go into that thankless, demanding, unprofitable industry.
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05-03-2017, 04:40 PM
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#38
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Franchise Player
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Last edited by V; 05-03-2017 at 04:44 PM.
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05-03-2017, 04:49 PM
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#39
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I didn't want to toot my own horn without getting permission from Bingo/Photon first. I will be posting something official about it soon in the other forum, along with the requisite CP discount.
www.thebeervault.ca
Instagram
Twitter
Facebook
I'm proud to announce that my partners and myself have just opened The Beer Vault, Calgary's first beer-focused retail destination, a store that just does beer like Calgary hasn't seen before.
Our goal is to have the best cold selection of beer in Calgary with enormous diversity but also a focus on local breweries. We want to support Alberta-made beer with a huge selection of local product from our neighboring craft breweries.
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That's only minutes from my office. I will definitely drop in soon an support a fellow CP-er. And beer.
Will you be posting what beer is available at the growler bar?
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05-03-2017, 05:01 PM
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#40
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I didn't want to toot my own horn without getting permission from Bingo/Photon first. I will be posting something official about it soon in the other forum, along with the requisite CP discount.
www.thebeervault.ca
Instagram
Twitter
Facebook
I'm proud to announce that my partners and myself have just opened The Beer Vault, Calgary's first beer-focused retail destination, a store that just does beer like Calgary hasn't seen before.
Our goal is to have the best cold selection of beer in Calgary with enormous diversity but also a focus on local breweries. We want to support Alberta-made beer with a huge selection of local product from our neighboring craft breweries.
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