New Johnny O’Quigley’s Irish Pub
So I bumped into a new Johnny O’Quigley’s Irish Pub. But it’s one for your holidays, your vacation.
Because it’s in Panama City. Panama City, Floida that is.
Strictly speaking it’s in Panama City Beach, a suburb of Panama City, and since we’re talking strictly, you can find it in the Towne of Seahaven.
Are you still with me?
The Towne of Seahaven is a Lifestyle Center. One of the latest fake towns in a crazy fad for a life that doesn’t exist. You could argue that it’s nothing new and offer the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City as an example, and you wouldn’t be too wrong I suspect.
For the record I hate the lifestyle of writing the word town with an “e” on the end for a new development.
The Towne of Seahaven is a 52-acre pedestrian-friendly beach side village along the Gulf of Mexico - “the first true beach-front resort village on the Emerald Coast.”
Johnny O’ Quigley’s Irish Pub & Grille is one of the 8 new tenants recently announced. Described as a “key anchor” - are you really an anchor if you are not key? -O’Quigleys will be including Kansas City Style BBQ, smoked on site:
Located in the front of The Village of Seahaven running perpendicular to the beach and parallel to the main street, Johnny O’Quigley’s has a main dining room featuring an authentic-feeling old World Irish pub motif with mahogany wood booths, tables and barstools, a stone fireplace and an eclectic mix of antiques collected by owner, Johnny Fuller. The second floor will be very airy and open with great Gulf views as well as a state of the art sports bar, with several large screen TVs as well as individual programmable TV’s in every booth. Johnny O’Quigley’s will be serving lunch and dinner daily.
Note that the fake Irish pub is in the fake Village of Seahaven (no need to add an “e” to the end of “village”), which I presume is the retail part of the fake Towne, which is in the suburb called a Beach, which is in the city called Panama City which is not in the country of Panama.
Some of you will remember that Seahaven was the town in the plastic bubble where Jim Carey’s The Truman Show was based. That Seahaven was partly filmed in Florida - in an actual place called Seaside, the original New Urbanist development created almost 30 years ago to look like a place from a time before cars and crack addicts.
Maybe in the foam at Panama City Beach there will be giant shamrocks etched into the waves that sweep towards the Irish pub, for that authentic old-world feeling.
Actually there is already a Johnny O’Quigley’s in Florida - it’s in the rival resort town of Destin.
The former Johnny O’Quigley’s in KC, the sister pub of Paddy O’Quigley’s in Leawood, KS, reverted to the Paddy’s flag and is located at 6312 N Chatham Ave Kansas City, MO 64151. Phone: (816) 587-2110. Thanks to Pete Maher for the reminder.
The other earlier variation on the name, Danny O’Quigley’s, closed. So it looks like Paddy for the KC licensing, and Johnny for further afield?
See More Irish Pub Goodness:
• History of a Pub, an Irish Pub
• The Closing of Irish Pubs in Kansas City
• Photos of Kennedy’s of 75th Street on Fire
• McNellies Irish Pub in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Open an Irish Pub
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Better re-count your O’Quigley’s lad.
The Johnny O’Quigley’s to which you refer has recently become “Paddy” O’Quigley’s. So far as I know, all the O’Quigley’s in the K.C. area (and that includes Lawrence & Manhattan as well) are flying the “Paddy” flag.
Yep - forgot that - the same deal with the Danny O’Quigleys, which I’d noted in an earlier post.
I’ll go ahead and update the post. Thanks!
Interesting article on lifestyle centers. Branson Landing is such a place-and it has a Waxy O’Sheas. Is the addition of Irish ‘gastro-pubs’ a new fad within a fad?