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Why did I have a feeling this place wouldn't last long? The whole She-Bang is closed.
Another Day, another unregistered restaurant at 2881 E Commercial. This time we have an Indonesian restaurant, because a street where Kaluz is the hot restaurant is just pining for Curry and Satay.
There's no food service license at this address, and there's been no inspection that I can find since they opened in February. A New Times Review indicates that they serve Wine and Beer, but there's no 2COP on record for this address. Firedog has a 4COP SRX, so it wouldn't appear that they're sharing (which I've discovered is strictly prohibited).
I don't particularly care for Indonesian food, nor do I think they'll survive the Summer, so I'll once again pass on reviewing this mysterious space.
The history of this space starts a few years ago, when Harald Neuweg took the building with the intention of opening 3 restaurants: Fritz and Franz Bierhaus in the big, main space, Satchmo's Blues Bar upstairs and Bouillabaisse, french restaurant, in the space now occupied by Batavia. This was all fine and dandy, at least from a restaurant perspective, as the same "operator" opened all 3 spaces.
But things didn't go well for Harald; he clearly didn't understand Fort Lauderdale and his "idea" had no chance of success in this part of town.
When Neuweg closed Bouillabaisse, Harald supposedly leased out the restaurant to BA Argentenian, one of the 2 very short-lived "concepts" in this space since before Batavia. He claimed it was legal, but I find it difficult to see. BA Argentenian sported a full bar; however the operator, Tomas Trabucco, didn't have a separate license. Sharing a liquor license (or leasing it) is strictly prohibited, so the only way this could have been legal were if Harald was the operator of the restaurant, which he wasn't.
He then "leased" the upstairs space to Firedog Saloon, which was almost certainly not legal, since they were basically a bar that was using Harald's liquor license; so now you had a bar that should have required a quota license leasing space from a restaurant and using their SRX license.
It's not clear what's going on now, but there is nothing in the DBPR database at 2881 E Commercial; nothing registered to Batavia, and no 2 COP license issued to anyone at any address in this strip.
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