Jordan's -- Closed?

[das]

So I walked by Jordan's today and it looked like it was closed.

Not like that's a big loss or anything.

[Bonz]

From tomorrow's Wash. Post:

Further evidence that NBA all-star Michael Jordan is just a distant memory in Washington: His restaurant in the Ronald Reagan Building served its final meals Friday night after two years in business. Other Jordan eateries will stay open, according to David Zadikoff, CEO of the company that owns them. "We have a bunch of new projects on our list," he explained yesterday, "and decided we could be more efficient if we focused on different directions other than the [D.C.] restaurant."

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/...

[mimi-dc]

I dined at Jordans once (business thing, I wasn't paying). What a ridiculously overpriced and underwhelming experience. What I remember most is cold food and bizarre service. I think it's a good sign that DC diners weren't wooed by celebrity and name recognition and Jordans hit the skids.

I mean the place was designed primarily so that Jordan could profit from his own presence while he was here in town.

Any buzz on what might be going into that space?

[Jordan's just in general]

Boy, years from now Jordan is going to look back on the whole DC thing and wonder what on earth this was about. Mid-life crisis? Temporary psychosis? I always heard thoroughly unimpressive things about it. But that fits in with my experience, and what I've heard about the other Jordans around the country. The Chicago one finally closed shop, right? And the Chapel Hill sports bar/fusion nouvelle cuisine eatery was just a bizarre mish-mash of unworkable ideas, and it also closed last year. I have friends who have eaten at the NYC steakhouse and they admit that the location at Grand Central is pretty spectacular but they didn't say much about the food really wowing them.

Oh well, I wish him well.