Biker bar a-go-go
The biker-themed bar on Meade Avenue across from Jinx’s Pits Top is called Black Market Moto Saloon (not Vintage Brews, as reported last month), and opened this past weekend with a limited food menu and in the owners’ words, “a very unlimited beer menu.” The official opening is Thursday. We know there will be live music and a cool industrial vibe, and on the restaurant’s Facebook page, we’re promised danger, beer, and romance. Sounds enticing.
Collect your mugs
St. Maarten Café, the Corner joint that served up “seafood, burgers, friends & fun” just as the sign indicated, has closed after 26 years in business. The decision to close was sudden and the reasons unknown. There’s a Friends of St. Maarten’s facebook page where more than 700 people are sharing memories of cheese fries, SoCo shots, and unrequited love. If you have a mug on storage behind the bar, you can arrange its return by e-mailing stmaartens@hotmail.com or russhamilton665@hotmail.com.
Relying on Relay
Relay Foods, the grocery, farm, and specialty foods store that offers online ordering and next day pick-up or delivery, announced last week that it received $3 million in funding from a group of investors which includes Battery Ventures, the same investment firm that backed Groupon and other innovative startups. Since Relay’s inception in 2009, the company has raised $5.5 million in funding and will use this latest injection of capital to expand and improve, thus enhancing customer experience. With more than 100 local vendors selling 20,000 products and offering 60 convenient pickup locations, Relay makes it a cinch to get slow food fast.
