A common refrain during several interviews I’ve conducted over the past year or so with restaurateurs working to open new businesses in the CWE involved their frustration over the unreasonable amount of time it takes to process a liquor license application. In Joe Baker’s case, above, it was 6 months from the time he applied…
Category: Food and Drink
Ben Poremba moving three restaurants to the Delmar Maker District
photo courtesy of Ben Poremba Earlier this month restaurateur Ben Poremba released a bombshell announcement that has the culinary community abuzz. In case you missed it, Poremba plans to move three of his renowned restaurants—Olio, Elaia, and Nixta—from Botanical Heights to the burgeoning Delmar Maker District, located between Kingshighway and Union. It’s hard to ignore…
Dressel’s Public House is open at last!
After an extensive renovation, Dressel’s Public House, 419 N. Euclid, has finally re-opened for business. Proprietor Ben Dressel’s father, Jon, a poet and former professor at Webster University (here’s Dwight Bitikofer’s entertaining Poems, Poets & Prose article from 2011 in the West End Word), opened the Welsh pub in 1980. Ben paused operations in 2020…