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Saturday, January 5, 2008

Community Meeting: TAS Liquor License

There will be a community meeting sponsored by Alderman Moore's office to discuss the proposal by Tas, a new restaurant, to offer liquor to its dining patrons at:
TAS
1146 W. Pratt Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60626
Monday, January 7 at 7 PM


There was a flier taped to the gate of my building announcing the meeting, but there is no announcement on Ald. Moore's website, nor was there any e-mail notification. So perhaps Mr. Moore would like to post it on his site and send out e-mail notices.

This new restaurant sounds exciting and like a big plus for our neighborhood. A liquor license for such an establishment seems harmless, and really necessary for its business prospects. You can't help but notice that restaurants that don't serve liquor, but only "setups", tend to have a short life span. The Room, South, Speakeasy, and Suron are all gone.

So I have only one nagging question: will a liquor license tied to food sales lead to package liquor licenses for nearby convenience stores down the road? Most nearby residents would be happy to see this restaurant granted a license, and most of us are OK with Sam's place. But no one wants any more packaged liquor in the neighborhood , so we will want assurances that this license will not open the doors to package liquor and that any new liquor licenses granted will require that most sales be in food.

2 comments:

Al Iverson said...

I did receive an email notification about this last week. I'll be happy to share it with you if you want to email me. Find my email addy here.

I work in email so I know what a pain it can be with people not getting emails they signed up for sometimes. I'd try signing up again, perhaps. Or try with a Gmail account; they are less likely to block wanted mail accidentally (though it could of course go to the spam folder sometimes if whoever handles JoMo's mailings is deemed a spammer by Google.)

The North Coast said...

I stand corrected then.

However, I did think I was on the list. I received email notifications previously, which was why I thought this one had been omitted.

Will re-register.