I notice over the last week or so Sheffield seems to have quite a lot of places opening and closing.

Openings I have noticed, anyone have any info on who is opeing these ones and what they are to be aimed at:

Old Sola bar as 'The quarter'.
The Red Lion on Heeley.
Jocasa on West st.
The 'Red Room', former Empire/Tube (I hear its being opened by the Fuel people)

Closings:
The Park & Arbourthorne Club on the Manor.
Henry's or whatever it was called recently opposite the Casbah.
George IV (theres another thread on this)
The Sidings at Catcliffe (I suppose technically this is Rovvrum)
Listed on West street


Anyone add any more?

Whats The Quarter like now?

I know of several pubs that open and close on a daily basis.

.pubs and bars close and open up all the time...more so now that at any other time in British history in fact. At one time people might spend a whole lifetime running just one pub...now the period seems far far shorter. Development is one reason, many pubs and bars are ear marked for the bulldozer, and its quite sad......

Add to the list in 2008 closures the Casbah, the Sportmans on Cambridge street in 2 weeks, and the Lions Lair, all those are coming down for a new development of retail this year...the development in the centre between Pinstone Street/Arundel gate and Barkers Pool takes in a MASSIVE area of demolition. Sheffield will be the biggest building site ever later this year! I see this taking YEARS to complete..........

i thought listed had only just opened, what happened there then never even got a chance to have a shufty at the decor

i thought listed had only just opened, what happened there then never even got a chance to have a shufty at the decor

Wouldn't have been worth it!

oh, i thought the whole point was that they'd spent ages restoring this listed building and how good it would be that it was being used again, not if it was rubbish though

Yes, it seems that the licensed trade is deeply depressed. For every bar that opens it's usually in a bar-that-used-to-be.

Reasons? Well my thoughts are that, particularly in locals, being a landlord used to be a 'pillar of the community'-type position. Now the over-greedy brewers will install just about anybody daft/brave enough to have a go, regardless of previous history....

Another thing is changing tastes - boozing out is very dear and lots of people now drink (and smoke) in the comfort of their own homes. Probably sounds a bit boring to the younger folk, but there's also just too many ********s out there now.

We simply live in a different world now, where people get home from work and 'draw up the drawbridge'. (John Lewis sold a 50" Samsung every six minutes over chrimbo.)

What's happened to the Nottingham House in Broomhill?

What's happened to the Nottingham House in Broomhill?

has it closed down?

Certainly seems to have closed. Only noticed it in the last week or so.

Certainly seems to have closed. Only noticed it in the last week or so.

Doesn't surprise me. I went in twice in the last 8 months and it was full of total idiots... a policy of not being 'selective' with customers always destroys an atmosphere.....

Greyhound at Dronfield has closed down, its reopening soon as a Thai restaurant.