Dear Flo's, Andy Kalish's latest attempt at a restaurant in the old Ka'lish space appears to be no more.
Closure appeared to be a sad inevitability once operations became spotty over the last couple of months, but we were hopeful this new restaurant would survive. The food was good!
Our team first got wind of changes a couple of weeks ago when a tipster sent a photo of a handwritten sign taped to the Dear Flo's window to our inbox.
It's unclear whether the restaurant reopened last weekend after two weekends closed for "Summer Break." However, a reader sent a tip yesterday evening that the restaurant appeared empty.
We asked a different reader/tipster to send photos depicting the current state of the restaurant space. Those photos appear to confirm the observation that the space was emptied out.
Both readers report art has been removed from the walls and today's tipster says the refrigerator was completely cleaned out.
Over on the Instagram page, it appears the hours section has been replaced with "Closed."
Andy and Gina can cook, there is no doubt about that. Their food was great, no matter what they tried to do, but the hours at each of the different restaurants were always wonky. Judging on comments to this blog and Facebook, they lost a lot of goodwill with the community over the last 9 years, with frustration over hours, different concepts, and a general lack of sticking with anything for very long. Dear Flo's was the 8th different concept in the last 9 years in three highly trafficked and visible retail spaces on Wilson.
Some will celebrate the apparent loss of Dear Flo's, but we always want to see small businesses succeed. We wish Gina and Andy the best and hopefully they will be able to cook for us again in the future.
In other news, there is a new restaurant coming to the 1303 W. Wilson space formerly occupied by Baker & Nosh, Longacre, L/A Mex and Floreen's. The new restaurant is NOT affiliated with the Kalish family. More soon!
Classic! They've made it clear we should expect their ventures to be closed most of the week and shut down with in a year or so.
ReplyDeleteCan you find out if they plan to open another or are they going to let a successful business give it a go in those spots? They seem to purposely open restaurants with the worst hours and then complain when they can’t stay open, as if they had ever given the community a chance to support them. With so many other successful businesses surrounding these locations, it has to be something with the people operating it at this point.
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