BUSY DOWNTOWN. PEOPLE everywhere. The epicenter seems to be the recently opened Iron Bay Restaurant and Drinkery. Co-owner Joe Constance is reluctant to talk about numbers but concedes that the restaurant is averaging more than 600 customers a day. Some days, it's hit 800 plus. Crazy volume. Double what he was ... Continue Reading
Iron Bay Prepares to Open, So Does Mystery Business, Short Term Rental Ordinance Poised for Passage, Sawyer Airport Prospects Brighten, CR 595 Is Hopeful, and NMU Professor Is “On Call” for More Protests
FIRST THE RECOVERY Room, then the Delft, then Digs, and now the Iron Bay Restaurant and Drinkery (formerly L'Attitude). New and re-fashioned restaurants and bars are popping up downtown seemingly every month. The latest on the Iron Bay: They'll be taking applications for employees within a couple of weeks. They hope ... Continue Reading
Showtime at the Delft Bistro
MARQUETTE, YOU ARE one lucky, little town. Lucky, because for a community of 21,000, you offer an embarrassment of riches when it comes to restaurants. The latest entry on the culinary scene is the much awaited Delft Bistro on Washington Street. The former theater, all lit up outside like a Broadway show, has been ... Continue Reading
Hiring an Iron Bay Chef, Pouring Liquor Down the Drain, Tearing Down a Paywall, the Latest from the Upfront and Walmart
INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS AT the soon-to-be Iron Bay Restaurant and Drinkery (formerly L'Attitude). The most interesting? NMU executive chef and director of catering Nathan Mileski will be the new consulting chef at the Iron Bay. He'll keep his job at NMU while training the staff and developing the menu at the Iron ... Continue Reading
L’Attitude Case Finally Settled
WELL, THAT WAS easy. After several months of wrangling in court--with nine attorneys, two judges and two trustees--the closed-down L'Attitude restaurant has finally emerged from bankruptcy. Longtime businessman and restaurateur Joe Constance has bought the property, the business and its assets. He'd been managing the ... Continue Reading