The Rokerij is named one of the best bars in America by Esquire
Says the mag in the new issue, with its slightly unorthodox use of the comma intact:
Step through the large wood door and down the stone steps. It’s calm and cool down here, like being in a cellar. There is a glowing fireplace, bottles of wine stacked up on the walls, a long, polished wood bar that stretches the width of the room. The bartenders are well dressed, they ask just enough questions, not too many.
Esquire’s also odd in that you can’t find the snippet online. On its web site it mentions two places in southern Arizona: The Hotel Congress and, rather fancifully, some place in Arivaca, which is close to the Mexican border in south west part of the state.
Last year, if we remember correctly, the only Arizona bar listed in the magazine proper was the Buffet in Tucson.
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The new Richardson's ...
… is going to be on land just north of its sister restaurant, Rokerij, on 16th street. Maybe this has been reported elsewhere, but I haven’t seen it. Richardson’s, which was at 16th Street and Bethany, you’ll recall, was destroyed in a fire last July.
A server at Rockerij tonight told us that the owner, Richardson Brown, had bought the land just north of Rokerij a long time ago. It’s currently occupied by a Daily Queen and a mini mart. (This is on the southeast corner of Maryland and 16th Street.) The new building will essentially duplicate the old Richardson’s layout of a bar and ten booths, which will be comforting to the old place’s many fans, but it will also have a large patio with ten more tables. The new place could be open in nine months, she said.
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