After five years in business, The Foggy Grotto has now closed. We thank you for your patronage. - Home Tiki Bars

M martiki Official Mixologist http://www.smugglerscovesf.com Joined: Mar 29, 2002 Posts: 3059	M martiki Posted posted on Wed, Jun 9, 2004 12:20 PM It looks good at Mach One. Uh, Roger. DCS arm switch is on. OK, Victor. Landing rocket arm switch is on. Here comes the throttle. Circuit breaker's in. We have separation. Roger. Inboard and outboards are on. We're comin' forward with the sidestick. All looks good. Uh, Roger. I've got a blowout. Damper three. Get your pitch to zero. Engine's out. I can't hold altitude. Correction. Alpha hold is off. Trip select is emergency. Flightcom, I can't hold it. She's breaking up. She's break- It is with great sadness that I must announce the closing of our home bar, The Foggy Grotto. Since the Grotto opened in 1999, it has served more drinks to people from around the world than I ever thought possible. And many of those drinks were served to the good people I've met on Tiki Central. (Well, mostly to Pablus). Some of our best memories have been within these four lauhala walls, and we thank each and every one of you for being a part of them. Parties, Tiki Crawl Pre-Parties, the TC Drink Contest, the list goes on and on. We decided not to have a farewell party because it would simply to depressing and maudlin, much as this post is turning out to be, so I'll wrap it up. The reason we're shutting down is because we are moving out of San Francisco. I have recently lost my job (company went bankrupt) and we can't afford the big city anymore. This is why I have only been on TC in a kind of spotty way lately. PCs must be packed, ISPs changed, etc. So I'll be back with moe information when I have it. Wow, could this post be any more cheery?! I hope it doesn't seem self-absorbed to post this in the main discussion area, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone. So, I will end on a positive note: Of course, this doesn't mean I'm throwing in the tiki towel. Far from it. Like a phoenix, the Grotto will rise again, hopefully by the end of the summer. And I hope you folks will make the trip up to northern Marin County to christen it. The Foggy Grotto. A bar barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic tiki bar. The Foggy Grotto will be that bar. We can make it better than it was before. Better. Stronger. Faster.

It looks good at Mach One.
Uh, Roger.
DCS arm switch is on.
OK, Victor.
Landing rocket arm switch is on. Here comes the throttle. Circuit breaker's in.
We have separation.
Roger. Inboard and outboards are on. We're comin' forward with the sidestick.
All looks good.
Uh, Roger.
I've got a blowout. Damper three.
Get your pitch to zero.
Engine's out. I can't hold altitude.
Correction. Alpha hold is off. Trip select is emergency.
Flightcom, I can't hold it. She's breaking up. She's break-

It is with great sadness that I must announce the closing of our home bar, The Foggy Grotto. Since the Grotto opened in 1999, it has served more drinks to people from around the world than I ever thought possible. And many of those drinks were served to the good people I've met on Tiki Central. (Well, mostly to Pablus). Some of our best memories have been within these four lauhala walls, and we thank each and every one of you for being a part of them. Parties, Tiki Crawl Pre-Parties, the TC Drink Contest, the list goes on and on. We decided not to have a farewell party because it would simply to depressing and maudlin, much as this post is turning out to be, so I'll wrap it up.

The reason we're shutting down is because we are moving out of San Francisco. I have recently lost my job (company went bankrupt) and we can't afford the big city anymore. This is why I have only been on TC in a kind of spotty way lately. PCs must be packed, ISPs changed, etc. So I'll be back with moe information when I have it. Wow, could this post be any more cheery?!

I hope it doesn't seem self-absorbed to post this in the main discussion area, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone.

So, I will end on a positive note: Of course, this doesn't mean I'm throwing in the tiki towel. Far from it. Like a phoenix, the Grotto will rise again, hopefully by the end of the summer. And I hope you folks will make the trip up to northern Marin County to christen it.

The Foggy Grotto.
A bar barely alive.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it.
We have the technology.
We have the capability to build the world's first bionic tiki bar.
The Foggy Grotto will be that bar.
We can make it better than it was before.
Better.
Stronger.
Faster.

Post #95473 by martiki on Wed, Jun 9, 2004 12:20 PM