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By the early 1980s Bennigan's had become one of the best known of the new style mid-range casual dining franchised "fern bar" eating and drinking establishments in the United States. In 1983, Brinker led an exodus of senior management from the S&A and Bennigan's division, purchasing a small regional restaurant concept that focused on gourmet ...
Cameron Mitchell is president and founder of Cameron Mitchell Restaurants. He gained notoriety in the restaurant industry in 2008, when two of the company's concepts: Mitchell's/Columbus Fish Market and Mitchell's/Cameron's Steakhouse—a total of 22 units—sold to Ruth's Hospitality Group for $92 million.
In 1873, Albany's rapid growth required the construction of the original buildings of this complex to pump water from the Hudson. It reached its present configuration in 1895, and continued pumping until 1937, with the city's water department continuing to use it as office space. [59] Now the Albany Pump House, a restaurant and brewpub, [49] 58
John G. Myers Company was a department store in Albany, New York built in 1887 and owned by John Gillespy Myers. [1] The building where the store was located, a five-story structure at 39 N. Pearl St., collapsed on August 8, 1905 killing 13 people. [2] The collapse was the worst disaster of its kind in Albany's history at the time. [3]
The Miss Albany served its last meal as a diner on February 10, 2012. [17] [18] In 2015, the diner re-opened under new owner David Zheng as Tanpopo Ramen and Sake Bar, with new booths, seating about 45 for lunch and dinner daily. [19] Half of the counter remained at the original height, and half was raised to bar height with bar chairs. [19]
The southwestern block of North Pearl and Columbia streets with the Kenmore Hotel in the 1910s. In the 1940s the Rain-Bo Room was a famous nightclub in the hotel; [ 5 ] it was named for the Rainbow Room in the GE Building of Rockefeller Center in the city of New York . [ 6 ]
In 1687, the year after Albany became an English colonial city and received its charter, the city council donated the land to the Dutch Reformed Church. The land remained in the church's hands, used as pasture, for almost a century. [1] What is today South Pearl Street was the only route to, or through, the area.
The Downtown Albany Historic District is a 19-block, 66.6-acre (27.0 ha) area of Albany, New York, United States, centered on the junction of State (New York State Route 5) and North and South Pearl streets (New York State Route 32). It is the oldest settled area of the city, originally planned and settled in the 17th century, and the nucleus ...