Heard that Barnabys in Tallahassee closed recently. Anyone have anymore insight? I’m assuming the closure is pandemic related, but didn’t know if there was more to it. Haven’t lived in Tallahassee for several years, but remember it being a fairly popular place.
Barnaby’s Closed
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There was an article in the Democrat a couple weeks back that said they would be closed temporarily due to staffing shortage. The Barnaby’s in Illinois are still open.
Iconic Tallahassee restaurant Barnaby's abruptly shuts doors; owner says it's temporary
On Friday Barnaby's Family Inn announced a temporary closure, which appears to have began Tuesday evening.
www.tallahassee.com
The staffing shortage must have come as something of a surprise to the staff that showed up Tuesday evening to a locked up building.There was an article in the Democrat a couple weeks back that said they would be closed temporarily due to staffing shortage. The Barnaby’s in Illinois are still open.
Iconic Tallahassee restaurant Barnaby's abruptly shuts doors; owner says it's temporary
On Friday Barnaby's Family Inn announced a temporary closure, which appears to have began Tuesday evening.www.tallahassee.com
RIP pirate ship decor pizza place.
Yes there is a "Business for Sale" sign out front.
From what I've seen on fb the building owner is not the business owner. The building owner is in South Carolina.
Tenant blames landlord visa versa.
Sucks.
It was a nightmare at the start of the pandemic but the past few months had been good.
From what I've seen on fb the building owner is not the business owner. The building owner is in South Carolina.
Tenant blames landlord visa versa.
Sucks.
It was a nightmare at the start of the pandemic but the past few months had been good.
The local owner had to fire the entire staff. He got too many complaints and the quality of the food suffered as well. The food wasn't the same at all during the pandemic. He said that the closure is temporary but I'm about 50-50 as to whether he will open again.
The message on the sign says "Business for sale."
It is a Tallahassee landmark (there was once another location on North Monroe Street) and I went a few times a year. The guy that started Red Elephant (grew up with him) used the Barnaby's style for pizzas at his place and expanded the menu offerings.
The message on the sign says "Business for sale."
It is a Tallahassee landmark (there was once another location on North Monroe Street) and I went a few times a year. The guy that started Red Elephant (grew up with him) used the Barnaby's style for pizzas at his place and expanded the menu offerings.
Funny you mention North Monroe. The first thought that came to mind when opening this thread was from their add campaign they ran in the 80's where the guy would say, "Barnaby's on North Monroe" that played constantly on the radio. I don't recall ever going there yet remember that slogan like it was yesterday.
edit. Now that I think about it was it Barnacle Bill's on North Monroe, lol???
Yep, Barnacle Bill's. It burned down about 5 years ago, never re-opened.
Several years ago there was a funny stretch of road there - right next to Hooter's was a BBQ place called Woody's. Made perfect sense to me.
Now we have a plaza on Apalachee Parkway that includes places called Dick's, BJ's and Party City!
Our kids loved Barnaby's when they were little - the place was a little loud for me but it was nothing compared to Chuck E Cheese or Fun Station.
Never went there, didn't seem to interest me. I was there plenty of times when it was a wings place!
Family owned and operated for 20 years. They did a mean ribeye back in the day.
And it was Buffalo’s for some time back in the 90’s. Even after the Pensacola one closed. Best blue cheese dip in the history of chicken wings.
Buffalo's Dip recipe from another thread:
Restaurant batch: 5 gallons of Mayo, bottle of port wine, 5lbs blue cheese crumbles, 4oz celery seeds, 4oz poppy seeds, 4oz garlic powder.
Smaller batch estimates: 1/2 cup mayo, 1/2 cup sour cream, 1/4 cup port wine, add the blue cheese, garlic, poppy and celery seeds to taste.
Yeah, I worked near downtown from '85-99 then moved out of state for 9 years. I went to Buffalo's at least once a week, sometimes more after softball games.
So I used the direction for the small batch and it included sour cream which wasn't in the restaurant batch. My end result was a purple, wine tasting yogurt. More mayo and yogurt? Let in sit overnight? TIA
I honestly don't know. I emailed the recipe to myself after copy/pasting it from the other thread. My email was in January this year but I can't find the thread. It's tough reducing these recipes, I know the Guthries sauce one too but it's hard to get the mixture right.
So you substituted greek yogurt for sour cream? If anything I'd skip the sour cream and just do mayo like the bigger batch has.
I used sour cream. As the weekend went on I adjusted the ingredients and it got closer to what I remember. Next time I would use 2:1 mayo to sour cream and 1/8 cup of the port wine. I can tell it's close, just not as consistent as I remember. Thanks again!
Nice! Port wine isn't a common ingredient or something I would've guessed to include.
The Guthrie's sauce recipe contains MSG which I haven't used when trying to re-create it.
Other good local sauces/dips - Bagel/Bagel wine-n-cheese, Riccardo's butter, Barnaby's ranch, Hobbit honey mustard, Monk's dill mayo, Hopkins house dressing, MadSo BLT dip, Gordo's sauce, ...
I have never cooked with port. But it seems to be VERY dominating in taste and color. That's why it ended up purple in color. I remember the buffalo's dip had a slight brown tint. But I am close and plan on tinkering with again next weekend.
Side note, I remember the Beef O'Brady's on Thomasville near Betton used the dip, one of their managers had previously worked at Buffalo's. Other Beef's in the franchise found out and started using it as well. Corporate then threatened to pull their franchises if they continued to use it. Became a pretty big deal. But that is how good that recipe is.
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