The licensing deal for the restaurant preceded Energizer's acquisition of the brand, and the company said that now that Riese had closed the club, and another Hawaiian Tropic Zone it owned in Las Vegas, it would not license the name of the brand again.The final Miss Hawaiian Tropic Australia/New Zealand crown was won by Ashiie Munro-Smith of Perth, Australia.
A simple civil ceremony at the restaurant preceded the meal, to be served at the traditional Mexican comida hour.
It's hard to imagine, but if common wisdom is to be believed, the drive-in restaurant precedes McDonald's by about 19 years.
LCB stood for La Côte Basque, the restaurant that preceded it.
It is a small, simple, spare affair with some Turkish carpets and decorative dishes on the walls and a fancy chandelier, no doubt left by the Chinese restaurant that preceded it at 919 Franklin Avenue (877-7301).
The Blue Mill Tavern resurrects the name of the restaurant that preceded Grange Hall and inhabited this space on Commerce Street in Greenwich Village for about five decades, beginning in the early 1940's.
With a tandoor oven left over from the Indian restaurant that preceded Nix on the site, the menu mimics an Indian thali with many smaller plates gradually building in intensity and weight.
But that's not the miracle, this is: In only a few short months, it has swept away any lingering impression of the quite awful restaurant that preceded it in that space, Aqua.
In the 1980s, Saturday Night Live did a sketch with William Shatner reprising his Captain Kirk role in The Restaurant Enterprise, preceded by a sketch in which he played himself at a Trek convention angrily telling fans to "Get a Life", a phrase that has become part of Trek folklore.
That it comes after a decision by the International Court of Justice that condemned a temporary fence, without serious comment about the killing and maiming of thousands in buses and restaurants that preceded the fence, only further demonstrates that these institutions have lost their way.
When Erini, named for Chris Fifis's mother, opened in July 2007, the menu started out with a Greek bent, including dishes like octopus, but morphed into Italianesque, from the twin pressures of customers' expectations and the legacy of restaurants that preceded this one in the sprawling structure on the hill above the river.
