All the proceeds from this first-time event go to Jeff City kids via Kiwanis. Sign up for a Sunday afternoon of beverages, food, costumes, prizes and . . . . if you want . . . . Bocce at Prison Brews October 30. Come by or call 635-0678.
Five bucks to the first five people who guess what the Former Mayor and First Lady Peggy will be wearing. Call and leave a message. 635-1121 Ext. 106.
The sign says it's opening in March at the Chez Monet Building. Rumors indicate it's about wine, cheese and chocolate.
Talked my way through the back door. The interior renovations look very promising.
Start with Coffee with the Mayor @ Chez Monet.
Multicultural Festival 11 to 4.
Metalsmith Tina Allen at the Art Bazaar.
Bevs at Gumbo Bottoms.
Mass at St. Peter's (part of the multicultural experience for non Catholics)
Dinner at Madison's outside.
Take an evening stroll around the nicest Capitol in the USA.
Then ........ Sunday Morning .......
Monday Night the City Council will consider a relatively minor rezoning application for Warwick Village, an historic inn on the East Side -- at the confluence of High and McCarty -- originally the Eastern gateway into and out of the city. Hank and Linda Stratman have already created several first class residential and office apartments at the historic site.
They hope the rezoning will allow the next big step -- removing some cottages to make room for a coffeeshop / deli with a drive through window.
This picture is looks east. The drive through will be on the left. The service window will be straight ahead. The cars will exit where the construction fence is now, back onto High Street or to East McCarty.
The Chicago Tribune says Jefferson City's Show Me Beer Festival this Saturday would be worth the 400 mile drive. Come by Memorial Park for the awards, some samples and live music.
It was standing room only at Ecco over the weekend. Good to see a great venue dusted off and doing well. Many thanks to the investors in the entire Dunklin Street / Old Munichberg redevelopment scene.
Have to post this before someone catches me on film. I have this weakness for Amish stores. Can't go the KC without stopping in Tipton. They have loads of snacks like roasted, salted soybeans that are perfect for any occasion -- actually no one seems to like them but me.
Anyway, I was visiting a client at Autumn Meadows outside Linn on the east side, and right next door there's a new store named "Duetsches Heim" -- German Home. It has a huge assortment of bulk foods imported from Pennsylvania. Fresh meats and cheeses. Locally owned and operated. Clean as a whistle. Kids working there you'd trust with your car for the evening.
How about one of these in old Munichberg on the Southside? All of us bargain-hunting Germans in Jefferson City would storm the place.
In 1933 Uncle Louis opened Landwehr Dairy on Ash Street. It had a front bar and fountain much like the current Central Dairy venue. Louis sold the dairy in 1963 to Quality Dairy, but it closed several years later. The large buildings on Ash Street held several businesses over the years, but they were vacant for a decade until Jefferson City's first and only microbrewery opened last year - Prison Brews - named after the State Penitentiary Redevelopment area just a block away.
Last week, a namesake brew, "Landwehr Milk Stout," was introduced along with the other Seasonal Brews. It's dark, with a malty taste, hints of chocolate and a "sweet finish from the milk sugar." Go by and they'll pour you a sample, or more.
We've combined two essential components of a great Fall Saturday. Watch Lincoln University's young Division II basketball team host Langston at the home opener exhibition game Saturday at 3:00 at Jason Gymnasium.
Take your ticket stub to Prison Brews and enjoy a buck off your post-game beverages at the post-game rally.
U.S. News and World Report in their Money Section had a recent article revealing that Jefferson City is one of the top ten places for wine lovers to retire. The author says we have a "low key lifestyle" and we are "not that glitzy yet." (Could someone tell me when we're close to being glitzy?)
Fechtel and Scheppers need to hop on this. I think Cole County is absolutely one of the nation's ten best places for BEER LOVERS to retire. Wine venues are a dime a dozen. With Bernie and Joe and Prison Brews, we could really get on the map. Randy Allen and Missy Bonnot and all those economic development gurus at the Chamber need to work this hard.
High Street Beat is the personal weblog of John Landwehr, a partner at Cook Vetter Doerhoff & Landwehr and a former Mayor of Jefferson City. Your comments, feedback and suggestions are welcome.