Monkey Bar - CLOSED

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2006 | Best Outdoor Bar

When the XPO Lounge closed in 2004, loyalists scoffed at plans for the bar's future: "It's becoming a [insert obscenity of choice] tiki bar!" The loyalists (and former staff) found new watering holes, leaving the bar behind for what they assumed would become a schmaltzy, preppy destination, but things didn't turn out so badly. In fact, the new ownership's stress on increased patio comfort has vaulted this destination into a prime spot for outdoor drinking: comfortable chairs (no wooden... More »

Shock the Monkey|Heal Thyself|Folded, Spindled and Mutilated|Potty Mouth

By | Thu, November 29, 2007

Shock the Monkey Let me get this straight. Three or four (is it that hard to count in the single digits?) people showed up to speak against the Monkey Bar ("Autopsying the Monkey Bar," by Jonanna Widner, November 15). Two of them were quoted, nam... More »
Autopsying the Monkey Bar

By Jonanna Widner | Thu, November 15, 2007

About 100 people sat in the gallery of the city council chambers last Thursday at the city plan commission meeting—an oddly high number, considering the commission usually discusses such scintillating subjects as 1-to-1 slope gradations or some sh... More »

2006 | Best Outdoor Bar