Downtown Paddy O’Quigley’s Closes Quietly
Reading Hearne Christopher Jr in the Star over the weeekend I see the Downtown KC Paddy O’Quigley’s portrayed as a victim to the initial success of the P&L District.
Talking with Casey Adams, owner of the only entry for Kansas City in the brand-new Zagat America’s Top Japanese Restaurants 2008, downtown eatery/nightclub Nara, Adams says that he wants the Power & Light to succeed because it’s an important part of downtown, but that he also hopes it doesn’t take too many businesses with it:
The most recent P&L casualty, Paddy O’Quigley’s in the Crossroads, closed quietly June 3.
Much more entertaining in Christopher’s column was the story of Bill O’Connor acting heroically at the Sprint Center in the face of an establishment trying not to serve its customers too fast:
“I bartended at Sprint for Garth Brooks, Billy Joel and Elton John,” O’Connor says. “I quit in December in the middle of the R. Kelly concert (because) the (bar) manager told us to slow down, you’ve got a captive audience, they’re not going anywhere.”
The reason for the slow service?
“Not to over-serve,” O’Connor says. “They’re scared to death of that. And we said, ‘If we work really slow, we won’t make as much in tips.’ And they said they were going to put a sign up that said ‘No tipping allowed’ because the bartenders were trying to work too fast, and they were trying to discourage that.”
More on Irish Pubs in Kansas City:
• The Closing of Kansas City Irish Pubs
• Chicken McBride’s
• KC Public House
• Raglan Road: A New Irish Pub for Kansas City
• History of a Pub, an Irish Pub
• McFadden’s Sports Saloon Launches KC’s Entertainment District
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