pictured: Day fades to night as diners visit Maynards, at the Historic Train Depot, 400 N. Toole Ave. click image to view largerAs the underpass opens at last, we dig into downtown's mushrooming restaurant, nightclub scene.
As a couple hundred people waited last Saturday to get into the new club Zen Rock, On a Roll sushi prepared for the crush of its reverse happy hour and Maynards wowed diners with its late-night menu.
It's a downtown scene that didn't exist two years ago when construction began on the Fourth Avenue Underpass. Thursday, Aug. 20's grand opening of this vital gateway is a grand excuse to explore the emerging dining and nightclubbing scene in the city center. Downtown, after all, has nearly 50 restaurants and bars offering everything from gourmet burgers to flamenco.
"You can feel the excitement," said acclaimed chef Janos Wilder, who opened his first restaurant downtown in 1983 and hopes to return with another. "There's energy in the streets at night, restaurants are full of diners, nightclubs are pulsing with music and dancing. There are people in the streets and they have something to do. A new downtown is emerging. This is becoming a downtown where people will want to be."
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