Disturbing Rumor....could Minnie's be closing? - General Tiki

T tikivixen Tiki Socialite Vallejo CA Joined: Aug 28, 2002 Posts: 726	T tikivixen Posted posted on Tue, May 22, 2018 7:45 PM Hi, gang. We took a trip to the valley to visit old work friends of Bill’s and on our way home, we just had to stop in at Minnie’s, one of my favorite places on earth. I love this old girl so much. We were shocked to find that there are no cocktail menus now. No tropical drinks are available anymore except the Jerk and the basic MaiTai. It wasn’t very busy. The waitress was super sweet. The food at least was much the same—I still like it a lot, which is odd ‘ cause I normally don’t really enjoy Chinese food. I tried a MaiTai and it was still not at all purist BUT strong as hell. So that hasn’t changed either. Decor was the same. Faint air of lovable scrounginess, also the same. Still, the recent reviews are bad and you can tell things are in flux. I’m worried about Minnie’s future. Article from the Bee, January of this year: http://www.modbee.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/biz-beat/article193397874.html New owner is some enterprise called Splash Bar, Inc.?! The waitress confirmed. She knows the Mahs and in fact they were here eating tonight. She says that so far it’s just more corporate in terms of management, finances etc. The cooks are the same. There are new chairs and things are getting fixed up a bit. Apologies if this has already been posted! I did a search and couldn’t find anything since March.

Hi, gang. We took a trip to the valley to visit old work friends of Bill’s and on our way home, we just had to stop in at Minnie’s, one of my favorite places on earth. I love this old girl so much.

We were shocked to find that there are no cocktail menus now. No tropical drinks are available anymore except the Jerk and the basic MaiTai. It wasn’t very busy. The waitress was super sweet. The food at least was much the same—I still like it a lot, which is odd ‘ cause I normally don’t really enjoy Chinese food. I tried a MaiTai and it was still not at all purist BUT strong as hell. So that hasn’t changed either. Decor was the same. Faint air of lovable scrounginess, also the same. Still, the recent reviews are bad and you can tell things are in flux. I’m worried about Minnie’s future.

Article from the Bee, January of this year: http://www.modbee.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/biz-beat/article193397874.html

New owner is some enterprise called Splash Bar, Inc.?! The waitress confirmed. She knows the Mahs and in fact they were here eating tonight. She says that so far it’s just more corporate in terms of management, finances etc. The cooks are the same. There are new chairs and things are getting fixed up a bit.

Apologies if this has already been posted! I did a search and couldn’t find anything since March.

Post #787062 by tikivixen on Tue, May 22, 2018 7:45 PM