The large and unambiguous letters now hovering out front of the new North Montrose version of semi-diet Tex-Mex joint Skinny Rita’s are accompanied by a small lockout notice, a rain-spattered reader notes this afternoon. The For Lease By Landlord declarations have replaced the restaurant’s logo on both sides of the freestanding sign on the property at 607 W. Gray St. (across the road from now listed as in-contract Cecil’s Pub); another banner is hung on the fence facing the restaurant’s parking lot, in view of the Skinny Rita’s logo still up on the side of the building:
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The restaurant opened around the beginning of March last year, following the lockout of Eleven:Eleven from the premises during the previous May.
- Previously on Swamplot: For Sale: Cecil’s Pub on W. Gray; Where Skinny Rita’s Will Be Squeezing in on North Main
Photos: MontroseResident
Two lockouts in a row? Is this a particularly hard-nosed landlord, or a cursed location? It’s sad. The West Gray Cafe was actually pretty good for what it was, but the chef apparently got delusions of grandeur in trying to upgrade that location to something fancier. It’s not the “Montrose Strip”. He should have stuck with a good thing.