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Is South Street's retail apocalypse coming to an end?

A downturn decades in the making

The boom-bust business cycle may point to a coming revitalization for the eastern blocks of South Street, but the corridor has a particularly persistent hole to dig out of. For several years, business owners and the local business improvement district have been trying to bring more customers to the street with mixed results, even as the national economy has improved and shopping districts in Center City have experienced a boom.

That’s partly a legacy of South Street’s previous renaissance in the 1970s, which began after older businesses fled to make way for a proposed expressway that was later called off. Cheap rent attracted artists’ galleries, rock clubs, and cafes, run and patronized by young people. Steinberg, who lived in Queen Village in the 1980s, said the youth-centered business model enlivened the corridor, but it didn’t support retail stability and resulted in an “incredible amount of turnover.”

The youthful crowds also caused a major image problem when some 50,000 revelers descended on the street for Mardi Gras in February 2001, leading to riots that made national news. They smashed windows, looted a dozen stores, and threw bottles at police, resulting in 100 arrests and a clampdown on Fat Tuesday celebrations in the years since. “That cast a negative shadow on South Street,” Steinberg said. “That doesn’t happen anymore.”

During the recession, scores of businesses closed and were not replaced for years, prompting some landlords to donate their storefronts to arts organizations for use as low-cost galleries and art studios. Anchor stores like Gap, Tower Records and Blockbuster shut down. The rise of online shopping took a toll. Meanwhile, shoppers began discovering other cool places to spend their time and money.

The variety of alternatives is something the street has “wrestled with over the years and still wrestles with,” said Michael Harris, executive director of the South Street Headhouse District business association. “Frankly, South Street used to be the only game in town, in the 80s and 90s. But the heat map moves, the areas of popularity move, so now you have Fishtown and North Liberties and East Passyunk.”

While the internet and changing shopping habits have challenged retailers everywhere, Center City’s retail market is booming. Some 2 million square feet of new retail space is in development from Vine to South streets, according to a 2017 report from Center City District, “expanding Philadelphia’s prime retail district and reactivating long-dormant downtown shopping streets.”

On Walnut and Chestnut streets west of Broad, the retail vacancy rate dropped below 5 percent last year, CCD said. The vacancy rate citywide hovered around 8 percent as of mid-2018, according to Collier’s International. Meanwhile, South Street struggles with a vacancy rate of 16 percent, nearly twice the citywide average, Harris said.

The loss of businesses on South Street is reflected in stagnant retail rents. Storefronts there rent for about $40 per square foot, well below the amounts charged in the core of Center City, according to a report by the real estate firm CBRE. That figure is almost unchanged from 13 years ago, while asking rates on Chestnut, Walnut and Market streets have risen steadily since then.

Yet with so many buildings vacant, rents should arguably be even lower. Landlords’ unwillingness to accept less profitable lease arrangements may explain why some spots remain empty for months or even years. A similar phenomenon is occurring in parts of Manhattan, where landlords are reluctant to lower rates despite a supposed retail apocalypse driven by online competition.

“There are people still expecting to get rents much higher than I think the street can support, so they’re holding out and holding properties vacant against the dream that has probably changed as retail is facing ever more pressure from the internet,” said Paul Levy, CCD’s chief executive and a resident of nearby Society Hill. “A lot of the property owners have made decisions to wait for certain types of tenants who may not be coming.”

South Street’s future may depend on embracing the model of the neighborhood main street. Levy, Harris, and the brokers agree that the best bet for the long-time tourist attraction may be catering to the affluent residents who have moved in over the last few decades.

“You’ve got incredibly strong market demand on either side of the street, from Society Hill and Queen Village, from Washington Square and from Bella Vista. This is not like a marginal commercial corridor struggling for businesses,” Levy said.

That would mean accelerating the street’s shift from its youth-oriented focus of the 1980s and 1990s, which depended on weekend visitors from around the region, to a balanced model that brings in more local shoppers on weekdays.

“Part of our challenge, and part of our opportunity, is that we have to service both the neighborhood and tourists,” Harris said. A recent survey of people on the street found visitors from 20 different states, he said. “We are a tourist destination and we want that to be a good experience for people, but at the same time we want to be serving all the neighbors that live around here, which are lots of families, and lots of people with disposable income. It’s kind of finding that balance of things that work for both. If you can get the right mix, both sets of consumers will be happy.”

An indication of what that could look like can be found right off South Street, on 4th Street’s Fabric Row, where boutiques, salons, cafes and restaurants like Hungry Pigeon thrive off a steady stream of local customers. One popular boutique, Moon + Arrow recently opened an offshoot shop, Little Moon + Arrow, catering to the organic-onesie-wearing, wooden-toy-playing children of their customers.

Nearby residents are particularly eager to see a grocery store fill the long-vacant storefronts of Abbotts Square. Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch company that owns Giant and other supermarket chains, reportedly leased space in the building in 2016 to open a smaller-sized, higher-end market, but the owner has encountered difficulties that have slowed redevelopment of the complex.

Harris and Steinberg said Ahold recently announced that the 16,000-square-foot market is coming soon. A spokeswoman for Giant Food Stores would not confirm a date or address for a new South Street store, but she said the company is planning to announce several new locations in Philadelphia in the coming months. A Giant Heirloom Market is set to open in December at 24th and Bainbridge, close to South Street West in Graduate Hospital.

The South Street Headhouse District already has Whole Foods and ACME at 10th Street, as well as Essene natural foods and two small markets on 4th Street. There’s also a small ACME on 5th Street in Society Hill. 

Another prospective anchor business is the small-format Target proposed for 5th and Bainbridge, where buildings have already been demolished in preparation for construction of the store, a parking garage and apartments. Steinberg said a “highly regarded” national fast-food chain is also working on a deal to open a restaurant on South Street.

“That’s the kind of happening that gives us hope,” he said. “What we’re hoping happens is there are some stabilizing-type tenants that are looking [to occupy space] on the street, that may not have the funky panache that some of the other retailers have had on South Street, but add national stability, which make it a safer destination for retailers and adds more interest.”

Apart from individual anchor stores, what South Street needs are developers who gain control of several properties that are close to each other and pursue visions for cohesive, attractive shopping areas, Levy and Weiss said. Similar approaches worked well for East Passyunk, Frankford Avenue in Fishtown, and 13th Street in the Gayborhood, among other areas, they said.

To that end, Weiss’s firm is working on transactions with large investors who would acquire a whole portfolio of properties at once, he said.

“It will take some time to turn around,” he said. “It’s not going to be one landlord at a time. It will be larger, well-capitalized landlords who have a vision and patience to execute that vision, not to open another hookah shop.”

A promising development along those lines was the sale of several properties owned by New York developer Michael Axelrod to Midwood Investment & Development in 2016. Axelrod has reportedly owned more than 40 South Street buildings and kept many vacant for years, apparently holding out for high-profile tenants willing to pay higher rents. Since the sale, Midwood has started filling the spaces, including a former McDonald’s that was vacant for a decade but recently reopened as a nail salon.

“There are a lot of property owners who are willing and interested in negotiating [with prospective tenants],” Harris said. “There's no magic wand that suddenly cures it all, and the needle doesn't move as fast as I want, but I think there are a tremendous number of great restaurants and great retail down here that we want to remind people of.”

Source: http://planphilly.com/articles/2018/11/20/is-south-street-s-retail-apocalypse-coming-to-an-end

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Is South Street's retail apocalypse coming to an end?

A downturn decades in the making

The boom-bust business cycle may point to a coming revitalization for the eastern blocks of South Street, but the corridor has a particularly persistent hole to dig out of. For several years, business owners and the local business improvement district have been trying to bring more customers to the street with mixed results, even as the national economy has improved and shopping districts in Center City have experienced a boom.

That’s partly a legacy of South Street’s previous renaissance in the 1970s, which began after older businesses fled to make way for a proposed expressway that was later called off. Cheap rent attracted artists’ galleries, rock clubs, and cafes, run and patronized by young people. Steinberg, who lived in Queen Village in the 1980s, said the youth-centered business model enlivened the corridor, but it didn’t support retail stability and resulted in an “incredible amount of turnover.”

The youthful crowds also caused a major image problem when some 50,000 revelers descended on the street for Mardi Gras in February 2001, leading to riots that made national news. They smashed windows, looted a dozen stores, and threw bottles at police, resulting in 100 arrests and a clampdown on Fat Tuesday celebrations in the years since. “That cast a negative shadow on South Street,” Steinberg said. “That doesn’t happen anymore.”

During the recession, scores of businesses closed and were not replaced for years, prompting some landlords to donate their storefronts to arts organizations for use as low-cost galleries and art studios. Anchor stores like Gap, Tower Records and Blockbuster shut down. The rise of online shopping took a toll. Meanwhile, shoppers began discovering other cool places to spend their time and money.

The variety of alternatives is something the street has “wrestled with over the years and still wrestles with,” said Michael Harris, executive director of the South Street Headhouse District business association. “Frankly, South Street used to be the only game in town, in the 80s and 90s. But the heat map moves, the areas of popularity move, so now you have Fishtown and North Liberties and East Passyunk.”

While the internet and changing shopping habits have challenged retailers everywhere, Center City’s retail market is booming. Some 2 million square feet of new retail space is in development from Vine to South streets, according to a 2017 report from Center City District, “expanding Philadelphia’s prime retail district and reactivating long-dormant downtown shopping streets.”

On Walnut and Chestnut streets west of Broad, the retail vacancy rate dropped below 5 percent last year, CCD said. The vacancy rate citywide hovered around 8 percent as of mid-2018, according to Collier’s International. Meanwhile, South Street struggles with a vacancy rate of 16 percent, nearly twice the citywide average, Harris said.

The loss of businesses on South Street is reflected in stagnant retail rents. Storefronts there rent for about $40 per square foot, well below the amounts charged in the core of Center City, according to a report by the real estate firm CBRE. That figure is almost unchanged from 13 years ago, while asking rates on Chestnut, Walnut and Market streets have risen steadily since then.

Yet with so many buildings vacant, rents should arguably be even lower. Landlords’ unwillingness to accept less profitable lease arrangements may explain why some spots remain empty for months or even years. A similar phenomenon is occurring in parts of Manhattan, where landlords are reluctant to lower rates despite a supposed retail apocalypse driven by online competition.

“There are people still expecting to get rents much higher than I think the street can support, so they’re holding out and holding properties vacant against the dream that has probably changed as retail is facing ever more pressure from the internet,” said Paul Levy, CCD’s chief executive and a resident of nearby Society Hill. “A lot of the property owners have made decisions to wait for certain types of tenants who may not be coming.”

South Street’s future may depend on embracing the model of the neighborhood main street. Levy, Harris, and the brokers agree that the best bet for the long-time tourist attraction may be catering to the affluent residents who have moved in over the last few decades.

“You’ve got incredibly strong market demand on either side of the street, from Society Hill and Queen Village, from Washington Square and from Bella Vista. This is not like a marginal commercial corridor struggling for businesses,” Levy said.

That would mean accelerating the street’s shift from its youth-oriented focus of the 1980s and 1990s, which depended on weekend visitors from around the region, to a balanced model that brings in more local shoppers on weekdays.

“Part of our challenge, and part of our opportunity, is that we have to service both the neighborhood and tourists,” Harris said. A recent survey of people on the street found visitors from 20 different states, he said. “We are a tourist destination and we want that to be a good experience for people, but at the same time we want to be serving all the neighbors that live around here, which are lots of families, and lots of people with disposable income. It’s kind of finding that balance of things that work for both. If you can get the right mix, both sets of consumers will be happy.”

An indication of what that could look like can be found right off South Street, on 4th Street’s Fabric Row, where boutiques, salons, cafes and restaurants like Hungry Pigeon thrive off a steady stream of local customers. One popular boutique, Moon + Arrow recently opened an offshoot shop, Little Moon + Arrow, catering to the organic-onesie-wearing, wooden-toy-playing children of their customers.

Nearby residents are particularly eager to see a grocery store fill the long-vacant storefronts of Abbotts Square. Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch company that owns Giant and other supermarket chains, reportedly leased space in the building in 2016 to open a smaller-sized, higher-end market, but the owner has encountered difficulties that have slowed redevelopment of the complex.

Harris and Steinberg said Ahold recently announced that the 16,000-square-foot market is coming soon. A spokeswoman for Giant Food Stores would not confirm a date or address for a new South Street store, but she said the company is planning to announce several new locations in Philadelphia in the coming months. A Giant Heirloom Market is set to open in December at 24th and Bainbridge, close to South Street West in Graduate Hospital.

The South Street Headhouse District already has Whole Foods and ACME at 10th Street, as well as Essene natural foods and two small markets on 4th Street. There’s also a small ACME on 5th Street in Society Hill. 

Another prospective anchor business is the small-format Target proposed for 5th and Bainbridge, where buildings have already been demolished in preparation for construction of the store, a parking garage and apartments. Steinberg said a “highly regarded” national fast-food chain is also working on a deal to open a restaurant on South Street.

“That’s the kind of happening that gives us hope,” he said. “What we’re hoping happens is there are some stabilizing-type tenants that are looking [to occupy space] on the street, that may not have the funky panache that some of the other retailers have had on South Street, but add national stability, which make it a safer destination for retailers and adds more interest.”

Apart from individual anchor stores, what South Street needs are developers who gain control of several properties that are close to each other and pursue visions for cohesive, attractive shopping areas, Levy and Weiss said. Similar approaches worked well for East Passyunk, Frankford Avenue in Fishtown, and 13th Street in the Gayborhood, among other areas, they said.

To that end, Weiss’s firm is working on transactions with large investors who would acquire a whole portfolio of properties at once, he said.

“It will take some time to turn around,” he said. “It’s not going to be one landlord at a time. It will be larger, well-capitalized landlords who have a vision and patience to execute that vision, not to open another hookah shop.”

A promising development along those lines was the sale of several properties owned by New York developer Michael Axelrod to Midwood Investment & Development in 2016. Axelrod has reportedly owned more than 40 South Street buildings and kept many vacant for years, apparently holding out for high-profile tenants willing to pay higher rents. Since the sale, Midwood has started filling the spaces, including a former McDonald’s that was vacant for a decade but recently reopened as a nail salon.

“There are a lot of property owners who are willing and interested in negotiating [with prospective tenants],” Harris said. “There's no magic wand that suddenly cures it all, and the needle doesn't move as fast as I want, but I think there are a tremendous number of great restaurants and great retail down here that we want to remind people of.”

Source: http://planphilly.com/articles/2018/11/20/is-south-street-s-retail-apocalypse-coming-to-an-end

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The Absolute best Puts to Drink Tequila in Guadalajara

Land in Guadalajara and it received’t take lengthy prior to you’re feeling thirsty. Blue agaves beautify the panorama, mariachi track rings within the air, and billboards for tequila pepper the panorama. Just right factor we’ve were given you lined with the most productive puts on the town to revel in a just right tequila, nibble on tasty botanas and meetup with pals, previous and new. Right here they’re, in no specific order:

Cantina L. a. Fuente

Really feel like guffawing, crying, or breaking out in music over a just right tequila? Then we’ve simply where for you within the ancient heart of Guadalajara. Cantina La Fuente, established in 1921, appears like an previous saloon, whole with an outsized wood bar, old-school tables, and a piano at heart level. However don’t let the basic really feel idiot you – this bar is brimming with modern day town existence: coworkers accumulating for a drink within the overdue afternoon, mixing with college scholars and overseas vacationers.

The body of workers is pleasant and responsive—beverages come fast and quite affordable. There’s no longer numerous selection with regards to tequila, however they’ve Siete Leguas, which is set all you want at a just right cantina in our opinion, and engaging sangrita as effectively. As an advantage, nut and snack dealers continuously make the rounds, so you’ll stay on ingesting and making a song into the night time.

Cantina L. a. Fuente Calle Pino Suárez 78, Zona Centro, 44100 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Cantina L. a. Occidental

This classic-style cantina located within the “Las Nueve Esquinas” (9 corners) space of Guadalajara—a ancient downtown zone stuffed with native flavors and traditions—is far more recent than L. a. Fuente, nevertheless it appears like a well-worn unique. Cantina La Occidental options fantastically tiled flooring, comfortable tables, and engaging art work at the partitions.

Don’t be stunned when the unfastened “botanas” arrive at your desk. Plates of meals, like highly spiced sausages, marinated boiled potatoes, popcorn, and nuts, will magically seem the extra you drink. A reliable cantina enjoy!

The provider is very good and also you’ll have extra alternatives with regards to tequila. The bar contains about 15 other tequila manufacturers, together with our favourite merchandise from Calle 23, Cascahuin, Tequileño, and Siete Leguas.

With two flooring, there’s most often a variety of room for you and all of your pals, even on a hectic night time. As an advantage, they’re open on Sundays, which is uncommon for a cantina, and ceaselessly function reside track to sooth you into the workweek, in addition to football suits at the TVs.

The following time the International Cup comes round, you’ll unquestionably to find us there, cheering for Mexico.

Cantina L. a. Occidental Calle Nueva Galicia 911, Centro, 44100 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

El Gallo Altanero

Tucked at the back of a stylish coffee bar, on the second one ground of an previous space, the “haughty chicken” is El Gallo Altanero, one of the most highest puts in Guadalajara to reserve a tequila or mezcal cocktail, or pattern native distillates neat with a a professional body of workers. Proprietor Nick Reid and his spouse Lupita moved from Australia to get into the tequila industry (Nick is co-owner of the Tequila Tromba emblem). They opened this full of life bar, which frequently fills with trade folks and locals alike, with the aim of giving voice to the small tequila manufacturers which can be ceaselessly lost sight of.

Along side pouring tasty spirits, El Gallo additionally serves very good bar meals. (The huitlacoche quesadillas are a few of our favorites!)

It is a must-visit position. You by no means know which tequila character you’re going to satisfy, or when all of the bar will get handled to a unfastened shot of Tromba Blanco. Keep there lengthy sufficient and also you’re prone to enjoy each.

El Gallo Altanero Calle Marsella 126, Lafayette, 44160 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

De L. a. O Cantina

Some other good spot to sip and nibble within the ancient heart is the De La O Cantina (pronounced “D’lao”, brief for “to the facet” in Spanish, since sits it’s subsequent door to Pare de Sufrir Mezcalería). This new spot, opened in December of 2017, has a pleasant vary of Mexican distillates, together with Mexican rum, gin, and naturally, the most productive small batch tequilas and mezcals. The menu boasts some scrumptious cocktails too, however don’t ask for a mezcal cocktail. They would like you to drink mezcal the way in which the individuals who make it supposed—derecho.

And, regardless of how a lot you assume you may no longer like pulque, take a look at the pulque! (The celery flavored model is our favourite.) Consider us – it’s very good. As is their “tepache”, a fermented beverage made out of pineapple. The bar’s proprietor, and Louisiana local, Braden LaGrone, occasionally mixes the 2 only for a laugh, and also you get an actual deal with. The normal meals, akin to cecina and panela cheese, is tasty as effectively.

The bar closes in the dead of night (ultimate name is 11:30) and the kitchen ends provider at 11pm, so move early and hope you get swept up in an after-party as soon as the doorways shut.

De L. a. O Cantina Calle Argentina 70, Americana, 44160 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

To blame

Grover and I ceaselessly discuss in need of to return to pre-boom San Francisco, when you might want to “uncover” a fab bar with down-to-earth body of workers and very good cocktails, that’s no longer crowded with hipsters. (Sooner than Yelp had unearthed completely each hidden jewel, leaving not anything unknown!)

Neatly, you have got the risk right here in Guadalajara (for now) with Guilty, a sublime bar with nice cocktails, craft beer, and a major spirits record that may have you ever sampling all night time. Come for a dinner as effectively—the meals is contemporary, ingenious and scrumptious.

This could also be an excellent spot for a date night time since there’s a variety of room to have an intimate dialog, clear of the opposite buyers. The bar has a romantic Artwork Deco vibe, and your date will unquestionably be inspired that you simply invited them to this hidden jewel.

To blame Calle Gral Coronado 75-A, Zona Centro, 44600 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Salón Monterrey

We spend such a lot time at this tequila-focused bar in Tlaquepaque’s ancient Parian that we’ve dubbed it “L. a. Oficina” of Tequila Matchmaker. Should you love all issues classically Mexican, as we do, you’ll’t pass over this well-known 140-year construction (made up of attached bar/eating places), the place teams of mariachi roam 7 nights every week, and conventional dancers take heart level free of charge night performances. There are numerous puts to selected from right here, however Salon Monterrey stays our favourite for its in depth tequila variety, curated by way of bar supervisor Augustín, who has labored there for many years!

Come, sit down down for tequila and guacamole, when you benefit from the liveliness of town, and the track within the air.

Professional tip #1- If you wish to do critical tequila industry, like we do, sit down at the out of doors of the sq. the place the mariachi aren’t as loud, most likely at our “L. a. Oficina” desk.

Professional tip #2- Take a photograph of your self at our desk and percentage it on-line, and we’ll percentage it too! Should you’re a member of the Tequila Matchmaker neighborhood, we’ll even award you a “L. a. Oficina” badge for your profile.

Professional tip #Three- When you’re in the community, make sure to stroll 1 block away and go to the two highest tequila retail outlets in Mexico: El Buho and Nuestros Dulces.

Salón Monterrey Calle Progreso 21, Centro, 45500 San Pedro Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico

Quinta Don Jose Tequila Bar

Tucked away in a beautiful boutique hotel in Tlaquepaque is a cafe bar that boasts a collection of nice tequilas you’ll hardly to find in Mexico. Pattern flights, and beautiful expressions of each the Los Altos and Tequila Valley areas of tequila nation.

Complete disclosure—we’ve been visiting the Quinta Don Jose for years and are extremely biased, however for just right explanation why. Their hospitality, pleasant body of workers, and captivating belongings make it really feel like our 2nd house, so that they requested us to assist curate their tequila variety. Selfishly, we packed where with all of our favorites. Saddle as much as the bar and ask Charlie (pictured, above) to pour you one thing particular.

In fact, they actually have a complete eating place menu of Italian and Mexican fare, so revel in a scrumptious meal and reside track maximum nights.

In case you are a tequila lover, this can be a good spot to stick. Now not simply on account of the tequila variety, but additionally on account of its central location to each the Los Altos and Tequila Valley areas.

Quinta Don Jose Tequila Bar Reforma 139, Centro, 45500 San Pedro Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico

Conclusion

Those are our choices—when you’ve been to tequila nation, the place do you love to drink? Fortunately, new puts are stoning up beautiful ceaselessly, so we can replace our record as wanted.

And right here’s yet another professional tip: You should definitely set up the Tequila Matchmaker app, which comprises a database stuffed with tequila-friendly bars, eating places, and retail retail outlets in towns all over the world, together with Guadalajara.

It may map you to the entire puts in this record (and extra) conveniently. Simply faucet at the “within reach” button at the backside navigation and get started exploring. Then, let us know which can be your favourite puts within the feedback beneath. (In case your favourite tequila puts aren’t indexed but, tell us so we will upload them!)

Salud!

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The Absolute best Puts to Drink Tequila in Guadalajara

Land in Guadalajara and it received’t take lengthy prior to you’re feeling thirsty. Blue agaves beautify the panorama, mariachi track rings within the air, and billboards for tequila pepper the panorama. Just right factor we’ve were given you lined with the most productive puts on the town to revel in a just right tequila, nibble on tasty botanas and meetup with pals, previous and new. Right here they’re, in no specific order:

Cantina L. a. Fuente

Really feel like guffawing, crying, or breaking out in music over a just right tequila? Then we’ve simply where for you within the ancient heart of Guadalajara. Cantina La Fuente, established in 1921, appears like an previous saloon, whole with an outsized wood bar, old-school tables, and a piano at heart level. However don’t let the basic really feel idiot you – this bar is brimming with modern day town existence: coworkers accumulating for a drink within the overdue afternoon, mixing with college scholars and overseas vacationers.

The body of workers is pleasant and responsive—beverages come fast and quite affordable. There’s no longer numerous selection with regards to tequila, however they’ve Siete Leguas, which is set all you want at a just right cantina in our opinion, and engaging sangrita as effectively. As an advantage, nut and snack dealers continuously make the rounds, so you’ll stay on ingesting and making a song into the night time.

Cantina L. a. Fuente Calle Pino Suárez 78, Zona Centro, 44100 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Cantina L. a. Occidental

This classic-style cantina located within the “Las Nueve Esquinas” (9 corners) space of Guadalajara—a ancient downtown zone stuffed with native flavors and traditions—is far more recent than L. a. Fuente, nevertheless it appears like a well-worn unique. Cantina La Occidental options fantastically tiled flooring, comfortable tables, and engaging art work at the partitions.

Don’t be stunned when the unfastened “botanas” arrive at your desk. Plates of meals, like highly spiced sausages, marinated boiled potatoes, popcorn, and nuts, will magically seem the extra you drink. A reliable cantina enjoy!

The provider is very good and also you’ll have extra alternatives with regards to tequila. The bar contains about 15 other tequila manufacturers, together with our favourite merchandise from Calle 23, Cascahuin, Tequileño, and Siete Leguas.

With two flooring, there’s most often a variety of room for you and all of your pals, even on a hectic night time. As an advantage, they’re open on Sundays, which is uncommon for a cantina, and ceaselessly function reside track to sooth you into the workweek, in addition to football suits at the TVs.

The following time the International Cup comes round, you’ll unquestionably to find us there, cheering for Mexico.

Cantina L. a. Occidental Calle Nueva Galicia 911, Centro, 44100 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

El Gallo Altanero

Tucked at the back of a stylish coffee bar, on the second one ground of an previous space, the “haughty chicken” is El Gallo Altanero, one of the most highest puts in Guadalajara to reserve a tequila or mezcal cocktail, or pattern native distillates neat with a a professional body of workers. Proprietor Nick Reid and his spouse Lupita moved from Australia to get into the tequila industry (Nick is co-owner of the Tequila Tromba emblem). They opened this full of life bar, which frequently fills with trade folks and locals alike, with the aim of giving voice to the small tequila manufacturers which can be ceaselessly lost sight of.

Along side pouring tasty spirits, El Gallo additionally serves very good bar meals. (The huitlacoche quesadillas are a few of our favorites!)

It is a must-visit position. You by no means know which tequila character you’re going to satisfy, or when all of the bar will get handled to a unfastened shot of Tromba Blanco. Keep there lengthy sufficient and also you’re prone to enjoy each.

El Gallo Altanero Calle Marsella 126, Lafayette, 44160 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

De L. a. O Cantina

Some other good spot to sip and nibble within the ancient heart is the De La O Cantina (pronounced “D’lao”, brief for “to the facet” in Spanish, since sits it’s subsequent door to Pare de Sufrir Mezcalería). This new spot, opened in December of 2017, has a pleasant vary of Mexican distillates, together with Mexican rum, gin, and naturally, the most productive small batch tequilas and mezcals. The menu boasts some scrumptious cocktails too, however don’t ask for a mezcal cocktail. They would like you to drink mezcal the way in which the individuals who make it supposed—derecho.

And, regardless of how a lot you assume you may no longer like pulque, take a look at the pulque! (The celery flavored model is our favourite.) Consider us – it’s very good. As is their “tepache”, a fermented beverage made out of pineapple. The bar’s proprietor, and Louisiana local, Braden LaGrone, occasionally mixes the 2 only for a laugh, and also you get an actual deal with. The normal meals, akin to cecina and panela cheese, is tasty as effectively.

The bar closes in the dead of night (ultimate name is 11:30) and the kitchen ends provider at 11pm, so move early and hope you get swept up in an after-party as soon as the doorways shut.

De L. a. O Cantina Calle Argentina 70, Americana, 44160 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

To blame

Grover and I ceaselessly discuss in need of to return to pre-boom San Francisco, when you might want to “uncover” a fab bar with down-to-earth body of workers and very good cocktails, that’s no longer crowded with hipsters. (Sooner than Yelp had unearthed completely each hidden jewel, leaving not anything unknown!)

Neatly, you have got the risk right here in Guadalajara (for now) with Guilty, a sublime bar with nice cocktails, craft beer, and a major spirits record that may have you ever sampling all night time. Come for a dinner as effectively—the meals is contemporary, ingenious and scrumptious.

This could also be an excellent spot for a date night time since there’s a variety of room to have an intimate dialog, clear of the opposite buyers. The bar has a romantic Artwork Deco vibe, and your date will unquestionably be inspired that you simply invited them to this hidden jewel.

To blame Calle Gral Coronado 75-A, Zona Centro, 44600 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Salón Monterrey

We spend such a lot time at this tequila-focused bar in Tlaquepaque’s ancient Parian that we’ve dubbed it “L. a. Oficina” of Tequila Matchmaker. Should you love all issues classically Mexican, as we do, you’ll’t pass over this well-known 140-year construction (made up of attached bar/eating places), the place teams of mariachi roam 7 nights every week, and conventional dancers take heart level free of charge night performances. There are numerous puts to selected from right here, however Salon Monterrey stays our favourite for its in depth tequila variety, curated by way of bar supervisor Augustín, who has labored there for many years!

Come, sit down down for tequila and guacamole, when you benefit from the liveliness of town, and the track within the air.

Professional tip #1- If you wish to do critical tequila industry, like we do, sit down at the out of doors of the sq. the place the mariachi aren’t as loud, most likely at our “L. a. Oficina” desk.

Professional tip #2- Take a photograph of your self at our desk and percentage it on-line, and we’ll percentage it too! Should you’re a member of the Tequila Matchmaker neighborhood, we’ll even award you a “L. a. Oficina” badge for your profile.

Professional tip #Three- When you’re in the community, make sure to stroll 1 block away and go to the two highest tequila retail outlets in Mexico: El Buho and Nuestros Dulces.

Salón Monterrey Calle Progreso 21, Centro, 45500 San Pedro Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico

Quinta Don Jose Tequila Bar

Tucked away in a beautiful boutique hotel in Tlaquepaque is a cafe bar that boasts a collection of nice tequilas you’ll hardly to find in Mexico. Pattern flights, and beautiful expressions of each the Los Altos and Tequila Valley areas of tequila nation.

Complete disclosure—we’ve been visiting the Quinta Don Jose for years and are extremely biased, however for just right explanation why. Their hospitality, pleasant body of workers, and captivating belongings make it really feel like our 2nd house, so that they requested us to assist curate their tequila variety. Selfishly, we packed where with all of our favorites. Saddle as much as the bar and ask Charlie (pictured, above) to pour you one thing particular.

In fact, they actually have a complete eating place menu of Italian and Mexican fare, so revel in a scrumptious meal and reside track maximum nights.

In case you are a tequila lover, this can be a good spot to stick. Now not simply on account of the tequila variety, but additionally on account of its central location to each the Los Altos and Tequila Valley areas.

Quinta Don Jose Tequila Bar Reforma 139, Centro, 45500 San Pedro Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico

Conclusion

Those are our choices—when you’ve been to tequila nation, the place do you love to drink? Fortunately, new puts are stoning up beautiful ceaselessly, so we can replace our record as wanted.

And right here’s yet another professional tip: You should definitely set up the Tequila Matchmaker app, which comprises a database stuffed with tequila-friendly bars, eating places, and retail retail outlets in towns all over the world, together with Guadalajara.

It may map you to the entire puts in this record (and extra) conveniently. Simply faucet at the “within reach” button at the backside navigation and get started exploring. Then, let us know which can be your favourite puts within the feedback beneath. (In case your favourite tequila puts aren’t indexed but, tell us so we will upload them!)

Salud!

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Driving all the way from Monaco to the City of Lights

We packed our car and left Monaco Friday morning on December 23, 2017, heading for Beaune in the heart of Burgundy. More than 6 hours later we arrived to Hostellerie Le Cedre, got installed in our beautiful and comfortable room, and immediately went out for a stroll in the charming village of Beaune. We bought some excellent bottles of wine from our friend Johan Björklund who owns L’Hotel de Beaune (that unfortunately was closed during the holiday season), the Bistro and the Wine shop, of course. Back at our hotel we had drinks by the fire followed by a delicious gourmet dinner at their Michelin recommended restaurant Le Clos du Cedre.

Early next morning we were on our way to the City of Lights, arriving around midday to the apartment we rented on rue de Belgrade on the 7th arrondissement, with a view of the Eiffel Tower. (Photo insert: The Eiffel Tower on our arrival to Paris @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha)

We love the location for many reasons, but especially because we have a great boulangerie nearby and is just a few blocks from Rue Cler, the most famous market street in Paris! There you find a selection of fresh produce, specialty food stores, patisseries, butchers, delicatessens, cheese specialists, fishmongers, greengrocers, flower shops and cafes. For the main shopping we went to the Grande Epicerie de Paris, but there were so many people at this time of the year that we went only once, preferring a daily visit to Rue Cler.

This legendary street is pedestrian and still has its original cobblestones. It is where the locals go to buy their favorite foods, stroll or hang out on a café terrace to watch the world go by. My husband who loves to cook believes that when in Paris staying near rue Cler is an absolute must!

Rue Cler the famous market in Paris The old and the new at the Jardin des Tulleries in Paris @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Fresh produce on Rue Cler @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Flower shop on Rue Cler @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Delicatessen on Rue Cler @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Cheese selection and more on Rue Cler @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Entertainer on Rue Cler @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Shoe repair shop in Paris @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

I decorated the apartment for Christmas while my husband prepared delicious meals, but we also went for lunch to L’Esplanade near Pont Alexandre, L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon, and to Café Flore and Les Deux Magots for tea and the typical Croque Monsieur. On Christmas Day we had lunch at Ralph’s and visited their boutique of course. That same evening we went to a very heartwarming Vivaldi Concert at La Madeleine with the orchestra of Les Violons de France. It was sublime!

Our Christmas Lunch @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Christmas lunch with view of the Eiffel Tower @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

The sun always comes back after a storm @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

The Bar at Ralph’s @CelinaLafuentedeLvotha

Lunch at Ralph’s @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Christmas Night concert at La Madeleine @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

We welcomed the New Year in style with a black-tie dinner at the sumptuous apartment of friends of friends on the Quai de Louvre overlooking the Seine River. Our hosts were lovely and dinner delicious! On New Year’s Day we met dear friends at the legendary Brasserie Lip, so Parisian! The rest of the time we walked around Paris, with an umbrella because it was raining on and off with sunny spells!

Majestic Eiffel Tower illuminated @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

View from Pont Alexandre, my favorite bridge in the whole world @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Strolling in the Tulleries Gardens on a sunny day @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Statue at Les Tulleries Gardens in Paris @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

The highlight of our trip was the chance to visit two important couture exhibitions and the Louis Vuitton Foundation.

Paris is couture and couture is Paris

Thanks to the help from a very influential art connoisseur from the Principality we were invited to the two main couture exhibitions in Paris: Yves-Saint Laurent and Christian Dior. We not only avoided the very long lines, but had the privilege of being treated to a private visit!

An intimate glimpse into YSL’s fantastic universe

The Yves Saint Laurent Museum is on 5 Avenue Marceau in the 16th, where YSL blossoming business moved on July 14, 1974, a magnificent Napoleon III-style mansion (“hotel particulier” in French). The haute couture house that had over two hundred people working on a daily basis, closed in October 2002 and became the Fondation Pierre Berge – Yves Saint Laurent, recognized of public interest later that year. Its main mission is to conserve and promote Saint Laurent’s legacy of thousands of designs and the many records related to their creation, celebrating the creative mind of one of the greatest fashion designers of the 20th century.

Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge had an unique relationship and together they created and ran a high fashion house making into an empire. It was Saint Laurent who described their couple as “that great eagle with two heads who navigated the seas, transcended boundaries, and invaded the world with its unparalleled scope, that was us.” They also gathered one of the world’s most important private art collections, auctioned off by Berge in the “sale of the century” in 2009 at the Grand Palais, in Paris. (Photo insert: Portraits of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge @YSL archives)

The exhibition starts on the ground floor housing the Haute Couture salons where the designer welcomed his clients for private appointments after the introduction of each collection, with each client assigned a personal sales attendant to oversee the fittings before the final tailor-made attire was finalized. Fashion shows were also held here, but in 1976 were moved to the Inter-Continental Hotel where they became fantastic spectacles with music.

The first section of the exhibition gathers the designs that became YSL’s signature style, each one appropriated from menswear adapted and adjusted to the feminine figure, combining clean lines and elegance. YSL created these pieces in 1970 coinciding with the women’s liberation campaign.

Sketches by YSL @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Robes by YSL @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

YSL timeless creations @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Magnificent design by YSL @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

YSL elaborate creations @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Embroidered jacket by YSL @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

The exposition continues with the history of a collection, season after season, with countless of sketches the designer made that were later transferred to his ateliers together with the fabric swatches, classified according to specific type: suite, dress, or coat. A collection consisted of approximately one hundred designs with accessories, reflecting the artist’s inspiration, mood, and era. YSL collaborated with highly skilled artisans such as weavers, dyers, printers, embroiderers, goldsmiths and silversmiths, with creations that needed hundreds of hours of work that resulted in unique masterpieces. (Photo insert: Heart by YSL (the heart became his symbol) @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha)

YSL’s Studio was central to the mansion, as a contrast with the magnificent salons, bright, quiet, neutral space with a mirrored wall, was the perfect environment for him to create. In the bookshelves you find the publications that were his source of inspiration, and the mirrored wall allowed him to study the model’s reflection from all angles.

YSL’s desk at his studio @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Fabric swatches at YSL’s Studio @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

YSL Studio with the mirrored wall @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Christian Dior and his timeless legacy

The Decorative Arts Museum in Paris, on Rue de Rivoli near the Louvre, celebrated the 70th anniversary of the creation of the Christian Dior design house, with a complex, extraordinary and intense exhibition costing over 10 million Euros. The last retrospective dedicated to the designer took place in 1987 at the same museum, focusing on ten years of the couturier’s designs (1947-1957). This objective of this new exhibition was to invite the visitors to discover the world of his founder and those who superseded him: Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferre, John Galiano, Raf Simons and recently Maria Grazia Chiuri.

Dior was a leading figure in the world in the 20th century fashion when he launched his New Look spring/summer collection in 1947, changing the direction of the feminine shape, leaving in the past the masculine silhouette of the war years, by bringing flowing curves and the bearing of a classical ballet dancer. Dior said: “My prime inspiration is the shape of the female body.” Dior’s were loyal to his desire to “make women happier and more beautiful,” perpetuating his legacy and spirit, enhancing harmony of elegance, splendor and simplicity.

Timeless CD design at the entrance of the exhibition @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Legendary flacon of Miss Dior parfume @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Miniature collection WHITE Christian Dior creations, dresses, bags, perfumes, jewels @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Miniature RED Christian Dior collection with bags, shoes and parfumes @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Photo of make up for one of the Dior fashion shows @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

CD creations gracing Magazine covers @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Photo of make up for CD fashion show @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

The selection of more than 300 magnificent haute couture robes, created from 1947 to the present, connect with emotions, stories and inspirations. Standing alongside there are workshop paintings, fashion photographs, and hundreds of illustrations, sketches, letters, manuscripts, plus fashion objects such as hats, jewels, bags, perfume flacons. Christian Dior was a passionate of art and loved museums, so that his creations blend in with the paintings, furniture and art objects.

Creations by present CD designer Maria Grazia Chiuri @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

CD exhibition of robes @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Selection of Christian Dior robes under different designers@CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Christian Dior robe by Galiano @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Christian Dior couture robes in exhibition @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

It was indeed a privilege to have visited the Dior exhibition that was truly spectacular and memorable.

Louis Vuitton Foundation an architectural marvel

We also visited the Louis Vuitton Foundation that this time around was showcasing a selection of 200 works tracing MoMA’s collection history. It was really interesting, but I have to confess that every time we are in Paris with visit the LV Foundation especially for its architectural design, so the photos I show will center on this architectural marvel. The photos speak by themselves.

Windows, Fondation Louis Vuitton, architecture (3) @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Steel structures, Fondation Louis Vuitton, architecture (1) @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Reflections on water, Fondation Louis Vuitton, architecture (5) @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Red parca,Fondation Louis Vuitton, architecture (6) @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Lights and shadows, Fondation Louis Vuitton, architecture (4) @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

View of the Eiffel Tower from the Fondation Louis Vuitton @CelinaLafuenteDeLavotha

View of Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, architecture (2) @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Today’s Quotes

“In order to live and survive, every man has to have what Nietzsche called aesthetic phantoms.” Yves Saint Laurent

“Deep in every heart slumbers a dream, and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess.” Chistian Dior

Celebrating the holidays in Paris with a visit to the Yves Saint Laurent & Christian Dior exhibitions Driving all the way from Monaco to the City of Lights We packed our car and left Monaco Friday morning on December 23, 2017, heading for Beaune in the heart of Burgundy.

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