Cafe Sbisa - closed again?

[kibbles]

walking by Sbisa on decatur one nite this weekend i noticed the lights were out and it's still decorated like christmas inside. are they done already?

i didnt even have a chance to check it out...

(hard to believe one could take out the operating loans to re-open a restaurant and not have enough to carry it for a few months...)

[nolapark]

it was a nightmare

one tenant for the bar, one for the restaurant and a landlord who didn't care what went on...one side defaulted and ruined it for everyone...nothing to do with food/service...it was all about a bad lease

[wagsjeff]

yeah, the bar guys wanted out and defaulted on their end leaving us on the food end locked out one day.

[kibbles]

that arrangement sounds insane. our family used to be in the restaurant biz, but our bars were always a part of the restaurant -- a split lease w/ two operating partners on each sounds like a really, really bad idea. guess it was!