Comments on: Local: Abrupt restaurant closure (UPDATED 6x, with new conspiracy theory info)

By: Talking Head

Talking Head — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:40:08 +0000

Loan, not grant. (Though when you default, I guess it is a grant.)

By: john

john — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:42:49 +0000

I am always happy to go restaurant with my friends in weekends. In this restaurants i love the food and environment.

By: Digger

Digger — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:59:14 +0000

Who from the City and county makes the decision to give “grant” money to a private business such as this?

By: Fact Finder

Fact Finder — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:07:28 +0000

On good information I can say the financing for the now closing riverstation restaurant was $450,000 private money and $200,000 non private financing. They had a loasn from the City and 1 from the county but 2 to 1 it was private money.

By: food junkie

food junkie — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:03:35 +0000

I heard the restaurant is going to be open on the 4th of July for their party but will not have the draft beer for the party. If that is all they dont have and they are putting out everything they have food wise it will still be a good time. People should calm down and let the River Station have teir last day.

By: Emtronics

Emtronics — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:06:08 +0000

Thanks for fixing the comments for IE users. And..off the subject here, yes it warms my heart as I could care less about the new library and on the subject, there are a lot of red faces at Hippie101 FM. They sunk some money into their Fireworks with Floyd party at the River Station.

By: ISM

ISM — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:53:25 +0000

I went there once for their Sunday brunch. It was overpriced and offered little on the menu. I wonder if they owe any HRA taxes…if so, yet another deadbeat business from which the city shouldn’t expect any money. A lot of good the grant did. What a waste of money. The Riverfront is like the Bermuda Triangle for successful restaurants. I

By: BeanCounter

BeanCounter — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:15:40 +0000

I am so bummed out. It is my favorite lunch place. It always kills me when my co workers want to go to lunch at 11am “to beat the rush at Chili’s” when we could eat at noon at the River Station with much better ambience and consistently good service from the waitress Val for the same price. Why does Peoria love chains so much more than non chains? My usual dining buddy is out of the country so I don’t even know if I will get to have their tasty chips one more time.