It looks like Jenkins Capital BBQ in the big former Ruby Tuesday space at 14th and Monroe has closed for good.
In November I thought it might be closed, as it seemed to be shuttered on Friday and Saturday nights (which is odd for a restaurant) but they told me via Facebook they were still open.
But I’ve since gotten more tips that they haven’t been open in a while, and their website and Facebook page are both gone, as is the Facebook account that I messaged with a while ago. Yelp also says they’re closed and the last review was from November, so maybe they’ve been closed or only sporadically open since then.
Too bad for them, as I was hoping something popular would come to the space.
It was Ruby Tuesday for a couple of years, which was closed as part of a nationwide store-closing, and the space was empty for some time before that. It was always a bit of a mysterious place, I had a hard time finding any info about them when they were in the planning phases.
To be honest I was kind of surprised it wasn’t another big chain since it’s such a big space — I feel like a Red Lobster would do well there. I wonder what other kinds of things might be good for it — maybe something like a Yes! Organic Market or some other big retail store? Anything else you’d like to see there?
