Calgary Openings, Closings, and Developments

[you&me]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

I think it was mentioned many months ago (possibly by myself) that DOP had a sign on one of the boarded up food stalls at Fifth Avenue Place and it looked like they would be opening up there. I noticed last week that their sign has been taken down and I'm assuming that isn't happening anymore.

DOPO?

Hot take - not good.

I've had the good fortune to eat at many 'hot' restaurants and I can't think of another that is so misaligned in in the over-hyped / underwhelming ratio.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by you&me

DOPO?

Hot take - good.

I've had the good fortune to eat at many 'hot' restaurants and I can't think of another that is so misaligned in in the over-hyped / underwhelming ratio.

So its good or not good? You sort of say both.

[you&me]

Originally Posted by fotze2

So its good or not good? You sort of say both.

Very underwhelming, but seems super-hyped, which I don't get.

Have an upcoming reservation and leaning towards "nah, I'm good"... Like, I'd rather just stay home.

Edit - I totally missed the mistake in my first post... Coffee. Had. Now. Better.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by you&me

Very underwhelming, but seems super-hyped, which I don't get.

Have an upcoming reservation and leaning towards "nah, I'm good"... Like, I'd rather just stay home.

Edit - I totally missed the mistake in my first post... Coffee. Had. Now. Better.

That's what I figured. Ya, I have tried to get a reservation there but impossible but they have six influencers a day eating there. Apparently its not that great but have good marketing. Now I hope they fail, haha.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

Map Town is closing their doors, moving to e-commerce.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6728579

Oddly, I've been thinking about popping in there for about 15 years now--most recently around Christmas. Should have done it!

What the hell is 'Maptown?'

And how do they plan to sell Maps online? Go toe-to-toe with Google Maps? Which is free?

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Locke

What the hell is 'Maptown?'

And how do they plan to sell Maps online? Go toe-to-toe with Google Maps? Which is free?

It is a fantastic store that sells old school paper maps to map nerds like myself.

[Fuzz]

Maptown was before Google Maps. Used to be a great place to grab topos and the like, or get a big global map mounted on foam board to stick pins in. Obviously their relevance has waned over the past 20 years.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

It is a fantastic store that sells old school paper maps to map nerds like myself.

Which will no longer be found on a map.

[Shazam]

Well #### now I want a Calgary detailed wall map.

https://www.maptown.com/Calgary_Deta...p_p/202002.htm

[woob]

Map Town is awesome. But not surprising to see them closing down the brick and mortar shop.

[Erick Estrada]

Man I haven't been to Map Town for a long time. Pretty amazing they have been able to stay in business at that location for so long.

[Shazam]

Last time I was there it was actually sorta busy.

Rent probably went way up. I wonder if the city reclassified the land.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Man I haven't been to Map Town for a long time. Pretty amazing they have been able to stay in business at that location for so long.

I'm surprised that both Map Town and the fly fishing store have survived for so long. Both a pretty specialized and relatively small market. There's also that new dessert place which is good but they aren't open during the morning rush which I feel might hurt them long term.

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

I'm surprised that both Map Town and the fly fishing store have survived for so long. Both a pretty specialized and relatively small market. There's also that new dessert place which is good but they aren't open during the morning rush which I feel might hurt them long term.

I have never been to the dessert place, but they seem to be open later and seem busy when I walk by.

[Locke]

Whoa...I'd never even heard of Map Town until today. What is this phenomenon??

[Sr. Mints]

Originally Posted by Locke

Whoa...I'd never even heard of Map Town until today. What is this phenomenon??

Makes me wonder what other hidden gems a lot of us hadn't heard of.

Green's Lapidary
Map Town
Albern Coins
Calgary Coin Gallery
Reid's Stationers

I've loved going to these places since as long as I can remember, and yet I haven't been to any save for Albern (which is quite boring unless you know what you want in a long time.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

Makes me wonder what other hidden gems a lot of us hadn't heard of.

Green's Lapidary
Map Town
Albern Coins
Calgary Coin Gallery
Reid's Stationers

I've loved going to these places since as long as I can remember, and yet I haven't been to any save for Albern (which is quite boring unless you know what you want in a long time.

Demille Technical books was another one. I'm not sure it is around anymore.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

Makes me wonder what other hidden gems a lot of us hadn't heard of.

Green's Lapidary
Map Town
Albern Coins
Calgary Coin Gallery
Reid's Stationers

I've loved going to these places since as long as I can remember, and yet I haven't been to any save for Albern (which is quite boring unless you know what you want in a long time.

Reid's is still open? I had no idea.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Locke

What the hell is 'Maptown?'

And how do they plan to sell Maps online? Go toe-to-toe with Google Maps? Which is free?

It took 3 days into my recent trip to Nicaragua to both regret not going to Maptown and grabbing a paper map before I left and also to decide I will boycott Google Maps going forward.

Apple maps has the courtesy to say "I don't know". Google Maps will confidently send you to your peril.

Example 1 of 10, Google Maps happily sent us into a dry river bed that it deemed a "road" in a FWD compact Suzuki. Turn around you say? Not possible, because an earlier descent was so steep we skidded down and would never make it back up. I felt like Jeremy Clarkson trying to keep my speed up in sand that was way too deep for that car:

[Fuzz]

Google knew you were bored and was just giving you a little excitement. Would you like to disable that slider? It's under "personality monitoring and behaviour modification". Note you lose access to spontaneity scoring and achievements if you disable.