“When we first opened and the bar was so crazy, there were girls giving men their cards trying to take them to the restroom. It was so out of control that I had to close the restaurant early. I had to ask them to leave. I didn’t know there were all friends. This older woman, about my age, came up to me and said ‘you don’t know who you’re dealing with. You can’t ask us to leave.’ I said, who are you? She said, ‘I take care of these girls.’ I said, you have to leave. I thought, oh my gosh. This is a big business. I didn’t know all these random girls all knew each other. . . . They all work together. I still have customers on Thursday nights that are mad at me for getting rid of The Show. That’s what they call it. They said ‘Mimi, we had a fun time on Thursdays. We were fishing.’ I said, ‘what do you mean fishing?’ He said, ‘It’s called catch and release.’ I said, I don’t know with some of these girls if you could release them, because they looked very serious. It was wild. They would say something like ‘Let’s go down the street to shop,’ because they wanted to go to Hermès. I’m so naïve. I thought, oh you’re going to Hermès, that’s amazing. My husband doesn’t ever take me there. I didn’t get it. It’s merchandise instead of cash gifts.” — Mimi Del Grande, hostess and co-owner of RDG + Bar Annie in BLVD Place. [Eater Houston] Photo: BLVD Place
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11 Comments
This sounds better than Mo’s, A Place for Hoes.
Am I naive, what is this about…?
Are these hookers, or R.O. girls home from college for the summer?
It was (and still is?) a little bit of both, with a generous helping of gold digger thrown in. The particular story was referencing something that happened in the 80′s.
And on another note, the Stone site next to Walmart on Yale is going to be developed for a LAFitness.
Can someone please retell the 80′s story (or direct those of us in the dark to it)? Sounds like it could be a rather entertaining story.
Could this be even more obtuse? If you’re going to tease us like that, please fill in the blanks.
This thread is worthless without pics.
It’s up on the Eater Houston blog. I’m not sure if there’s a reason the reference doesn’t have a hotlink, so I’m guessing I’ll err on the safe side and not hot link it in this comment either.
Wait…what?…huh?
@drone: Leaving out the link was just our mistake. It’s in there now.
I know I’m a little late to the party, but just to clarify, the incident Mimi describes above occurred when Cafe Annie moved and became RDG + Bar Annie. Peg it in 2009 or so. I’ll leave it for everyone else to speculate as to where The Show has its performances these days.