Tycoons Alehouse open Dec. 31 … and other restaurant notes
By Paul Lundgren on Dec 28, 2011 in Restaurants
- The sign is up at Tycoons Alehouse and Eatery and a New Year’s Eve opening is planned with Cry on Cue playing.
- The Zeitgeist Arts Café is opening for brunch on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. starting Jan. 1. Signature drinks including bloody Marys made with bacon-infused vodka will be available. In step with the brunch at the café is a new series of Saturday morning family movies at Zinema 2. The first one is 1979′s The Muppet Movie on Jan. 7 at 10:30 a.m.
- Ledge Rock Grille in Larsmont has a new Carribean menu on Thursday nights.
- The old Italian Village in West Duluth is now Gannucci’s Italian Market. It has expanded into the neighboring space and now includes a pizzeria. (See below.)
Anyone know how to get in contact with them? Their website is fubard.
http://www.facebook.com/duluth.tycoons
Looks cool, and just in time for my tasteful bachelor party in a couple weeks. Definitely making a stop.
Tycoons looks very cool. Can’t wait.
Very cool, I heard about all the great art that was going into the interior! Just look at that second photo, it’… oh. OH, that’s the Italian Village.
I hope this place has any good vegetarian food at all. ‘Bacon infused vodka’ isn’t stoking my hopes.
Take a peek inside with this DNT article and video. http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/218325/
The interior looks great and I cannot wait to drink a beer poured from their incredible steam punk copper tap handle system.
Sounds like they will have menu items made from locally sourced ingredients changed weekly along with classic pub food.
Congratulations and good luck!
The rathskeller downstairs will be cool too.
The stage looks pretty sweet.
The bacon infused vodka is at Zeitgeist Arts Café, not Tycoons.
Amazing Grace is open New Year’s day for breakfast 7am to 1pm.
I’m very confused, evidently.
Amazing Grace is a wonderful place. I’m going to go there and eat a bowl of soup for good luck.
Wait a minute. BACON INFUSED VODKA? Jesus has returned!
Most of the flavor in bacon comes from smoke. The rest, from grease mainly. I’d much rather go for some vodka aged in charred oak or just eat a piece of smoked cheese or something.
Did you know! The first vodka imported into the United States was Gold Smirnoff. It was aged for 10 years in oak casks, similar to how whiskey is aged, giving it a golden brown color and surely a more woody, smoky flavor. I’ve long wondered how that barrel-aged vodka tastes.
Bacon vodka is not as good as it sounds. It sucks.
Ugh, bacon in my vodka? No thanks. Psyched about the Caribbean menu at Ledge Rock Grill though, isn’t that where the lead singer in that reggae band, Uprising, works? Dexter? He’s from the Caribbean, I think Jamaica.
bacon makes everything better…
Sometimes bacon is: If it’s wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
And sometimes bacon is just wrong:
Bacon-flavoured Vodka, Jelly Beans, Gum Balls, and Toothpaste?
Oh yeah, and Best of Luck to Tycoons!
Bacon is the gateway meat.
Chris Recore is the new executive chef at Ledge Rock. He’s been there since August. He is formerly of Whistling Bird fame, so yeah, that’s why the Thursday-night Caribbean menu is happening.
Entrees include: Coconut Encrusted Mahi Mahi, Shrimp Rasta Pasta and Mango Habanero Glazed Pork Prime.
So, have people tried Tycoons? What’s the verdict?
How about Gannucci’s?
Tycoon’s is awesome, can’t wait to go back! Gannucci’s is now owned by an asshole who once put MSG-laden beef stock in a soup and pass it off as vegetarian. I suggest if you plan on stopping buy, double check your food.
I’ve been to Gannucci’s once since the change of ownership. I can’t attest to anyone there being an “asshole,” as BadCat put it, as I was treated very well and the quality was the same as it was under the previous owner, which is to say fantastic.
Bill Kalligher is the new owner of Gannucci’s and in my two brief interactions with him I’ve walked away thinking it would be rare to meet a nicer guy.
I’ve also heard the Oriental House has finally opened in the old Chef Yee’s location at 319 W. First St. The notice that it will “open soon” shown below is from last May, but “soon” in the restaurant business is generally six months, so we shouldn’t hold that against them.
Yeah, I thought he was a pretty cool guy too, until I worked for him. I’m not the only one to think that.
We went to Tycoon’s tonight and it was pretty awesome. One note: some of their meals contain a sauce they call “Epic Cheese,” which is impossible for me to say without imagining myself skidding to a stop on a mountain bike and making the “hang loose” sign.
I think Tycoons is merely what we all wished the Brewhouse was, more spacious, etc. It’s funny how they managed to have all that space and still end up with some tight traffic areas. Time will tell. One favor-- please get rid of the bass-driven club music. That’s what the Red Star is for.
The Brewhouse has been sorely lacking in space and layout for … well, forever. They have been successful in annexing more space for their brewing ops. Their limitations in that regard are physical. You can’t get around a stone exterior wall on one side and the main entrance to the building on the other. I doubt Vesterstein would be so generous as to completely alter the layout of his building.
They do well for what they have, really, and the “new” bar they put in back in 2006 was a vast improvement on the old one … I think they added four to six more stools.
Had lunch at Gannucci’s with some pals. The muffuletta was good as always, as was the meatball sandwich. The Italian beef sandwich, not so great, served on soft white bread like Wonder bread. There was a good Italian sausage soup.
Apparently there’s a Noodles & Company coming to Duluth’s Miller Hill Mall this summer.
Craigslist employment ad: Noodles & Company is coming to Duluth!
Heavy Table has reviewed Tycoons Alehouse and Eatery, and even put up a photo of the not-so-secret basement.
Here are some shots from a few weeks ago of the construction underway at the yet-to-be-opened basement brewpub at Tycoons. Apparently it will be called the Ratskeller and open on St. Patrick’s Day.
Ratskeller? Isn’t that building the old city hall? Would fit nicely … kellers were usually bars in the basements of government buildings … city halls and the like.