Add a rooftop deck and that’s worth yelling Ole! Like early railroad builders boring a tunnel, the demo created a through-passage to a new dining area, adding 2,000 more square feet and doubling its existing dining space. Expanding its footprint like its enchiladas do your belly, S&L busted through the adjacent wall separating it from the former Artisan’s Market. Owned by Rex’s Family of Restaurants, Salt & Lime and The Laundry/Creekside Cave have done some brickwork demo to enhance their dining options during, and after, the pandemic. But it was as classic of a bar as you’ll anywhere out West.” Who Ya’ Gonna Call…Wallbusters! Salt & Lime, Laundry Bust Walls to Boost Biz “One said Montana, and another said South Dakota. Sidebar: What Happened to the Ghost Ranch Bar?īar historians rejoice (or cringe)! The Ghost Ranch bar, which reportedly came from the Black Hills and was the one where “Rocky Raccoon met his match,” was sold by the building’s owners to a bar broker who has plans to re-sell it. “We ended up getting conflicting stories on where it came from,” says building partner Cam Boyd. “We’re excited to be back open and we’re starting with a smaller menu,” says Gabriel, who still serves up his fish burritos “the good way” if you know to ask. There’s no seating, so customers order through a take-out window. every day, and then Clyde’s team moves into the same kitchen, slinging pizzas to go. After closing his long-running Mex restaurant on Ninth Street in November, where he’d been slinging burritos for 15 years, Azteca owner Jonas Gabriel has now opened anew below Ghost Ranch, tag-teaming the space with Clyde’s Pies. Showing that teamwork and partnerships are alive and thriving in the eatery world, Azteca and Clyde’s Pies are teaming up to share a space in the bottom of the Ghost Ranch building at 56 Seventh St. We prefer musical fares-as in the ol’ switcheroo sweeping through Steamboat’s restaurant scene this season, with some expanding, some moving and others spicing up their offerings. If you liked this, and want to hear more, give us a follow and let us know! Or maybe you just want to tell us how awful we are? Comments help the algorithm, and we love to see ‘em! And as always, don't kill the messenger.Some call it musical chairs. He will either be playing Skee Ball, talking to regulars, or introvertedly enjoying a gin and tonic. When he is not working or writing you can find him sitting in his favorite seat at the corner of his favorite bar, Rocks in River North Chicago. He draws on artistic influences from a multitude of mediums including Nelson Algren, Father John Misty, Anthony Bourdain, Mark Normand, and Jonah Hill. Gunthar lives in Chicago by way of Atlanta. Much more has been conceived since that devastating moment, with his largest debut coming from a Yelp review of the local “Rock N’ Roll” McDonalds garnering a "critical masterpiece" response within the underground of Chicago’s River North Neighborhood. Over the course of his unpublished career, Gunthar Fleck has written not only an impressive number of emails as a Finance professional, but volumes of creative writing which have unceremoniously found their way to a trash can on Chicago’s Blue Line.