After one of the lengthiest and nastiest neighborhood liquor fights in years, embattled Soho restaurant Lola finally closed its doors last Friday.
Owners Tom and Gayle Patrick-Odeen had been banging heads with the bar-battling Soho Alliance over alcohol service and live music at their 192-seat, 3,300-square-foot eatery on Watts Street since 2004.
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After three years of court fights with booze- and noise-wary neighbors over its liquor license and live music program, embattled Lola restaurant at 5-15 Watts Street has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
In addition to mounting unpaid legal bills — nearly $100,000 and counting — proprietors Gayle Patrick-Odeen and Tom Patrick-Odeen also owe Read More
Embattled Soho restaurant Lola will just have to make do without live music, the State Liquor Authority informed the eatery’s owners on Thursday.
Proprietors Tom and Gayle Patrick-Odeen have said that their business—which has been the subject of a nasty, three-and-a-half-year legal dispute with neighbors, who have protested the place’s right to sell booze—is Read More
“We don’t want to appear to be antagonistic to anyone,” said restaurateur Gayle Patrick-Odeen, after deleting some triumphant rhe-toric from her Web site and yanking letters of support from her storefront windows, on advice of counsel.
“We don’t want to rub anything in anybody’s face,” Ms. Patrick-Odeen said. “We just want to get on with Read More
“We don’t want to appear to be antagonistic to anyone,” said restaurateur Gayle Patrick-Odeen, after deleting some triumphant rhe-toric from her Web site and yanking letters of support from her storefront windows, on advice of counsel.
“We don’t want to rub anything in anybody’s face,” Ms. Patrick-Odeen said. “We just want to get on with Read More
Race, Booze, Jazz and Noise Make for Soho Restaurant Fight
“Tom and Gayle Patrick-Odeen are reluctant to boast about their latest court victory in front of the neighbors–even though they suggest the ruling might finally allow them to reopen their embattled and long-shuttered soul-food eatery and live jazz venue, Lola, in Soho. Granted, that’s Read More
