Metro area restaurant flooded (update on Canoe)
An update from an earlier post:
Waters from the Chattahochee River have closed Canoe, and submerged a newly planted sustainable garden chef Carvel Grant Gould had planned to promote at an upcoming dinner.
Water is about three-quarters of the way up the front door of the popular Atlanta restaurant, and approximately five and half feet of water submerged the lower areas of the restaurant near the gardens. The 12-year-old eatery plans to reopen “as soon as possible,” according to one of its owners, George McKerrow, who spoke through a PR representative. Workers are there this afternoon assessing damage, and many employees, including chef Gould, are helping load and unload materials. Cleaning will begin late tonight or tomorrow, and on Friday the owners will assess damages and decide on a reopening date. The restaurant may be able to open sooner for outdoor parties. I’ll let you know the reopening date as soon as I have it.
From the earlier post, this morning:
Pictures are surfacing on the Internet of local restaurants that have been flooded due to the overflow of the Chattahoochee River.
Canoe, it seems, is closed due to flooding. I cannot substantiate the photos on the web, but phone calls to the restaurant and management this morning have gone unanswered. Ray’s on the River also seems to have been affected, but restaurant manager Jeremy Richmond told me that though the front lawn has been somewhat flooded, the restaurant has not been affected.
“We are fully operational,” Richmond told me by phone. Richmond said the restaurant had a full dining room last night, and diners had “dinner and show” watching the ‘Hooch breach its boundaries. “We saw three kayakers,” Richmond said, “two swing sets, plus loads of basketballs and soccer balls rushing down the river.”
More on Canoe as soon as I have it.
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20 comments Add your comment
ATof3kids
October 10th, 2009
2:24 pm
How ’bout we all agree to disagree about “the comment” by Drew and agree to agree that ALL have been impacted by the various results of the “Floods of 2009″? Comments to news stories are like e-mails whereby “written” communications can be taken out of context and misunderstood – more impact is being placed on “the comment” than on the issue and THAT is beginning to be the point! The point SHOULD be the floods and the results thereof, NOT “the comment” so come on everyone, let’s be adults and get along …
Clay
September 25th, 2009
6:13 pm
Drew, so you don’t care about the restaurant story b/c they chose to be on the river, but you’re mad at the trash coming down from families’ belongings that weren’t even in the floodplain? You keep calling it trash, I’m sure these people would rather have their things to have never washed away! Are you trying to blame the homeowners who were flooded for the things being washed downstream?
roc_a_fella
September 25th, 2009
11:10 am
@JEAS3 – lol! you must have been one of the “patrons”
Voice of Reason #1
September 25th, 2009
8:21 am
Canoe was/is a great restaurant in general, but it also holds a great memory for me. After many years of a broken heart; and the man who broke it later moving to Atlanta with his wife (who he picked in my image); and he, for years, begging me to meet with him–he needed “to talk”…I finally–after 7 years–said yes (to find out what the heck he wanted!), and it was at Canoe that he told me “I f***** up…I married the wrong girl.” And he expounded on that. That was even sweeter than Canoe’s great creme brulee!
JEAS3
September 24th, 2009
8:30 pm
@Drew: Actually, your post above is the first time that you have mentioned Canoe at all, let alone where the flooding of the restaurant ranks in relation to the debris in the river. I wasn’t trying to criticize you, I was only trying to make the point that we can all agree on the fact that there are bigger issues at hand. Canoe has done nothing to pollute the river whatsoever, it is a victim the same as many other businesses and individuals around the city. Again, I’m just asking for some perspective here – no offense intended to anyone…
Drew
September 24th, 2009
3:06 pm
JEA – I never argued that trash was a bigger story than the loss of life, etc. did I? I only said it was a bigger issue than the flooding of a restaurant that choose to put itself on the banks of a river. This isn’t the first time Canoe has flooded and it won’t be the last.
JEAS3
September 24th, 2009
2:49 pm
I have to say that I think it is rather amusing that several posts on this blog got so riled up about the quote from Mr. Richmond regarding the debris floating down the river. The quote was obviously just one part of a longer conversation and should be viewed as such. I’m quite certain that the comment was made to try and lighten up what was undoubtedly a very sobering conversation about the damages wrought by the flood. Try and keep some perspective people!
@Aussie: Try not to be so quick to judge a whole group of patrons based on a quote from one person.
@Drew: Your point is well taken about the trash; however, I think that we can all agree that the bigger story at the moment is the loss of life, property and jobs that have resulted from this catastrophic event.
Aussie
September 24th, 2009
10:23 am
That “dinner and show” comment was so insensitive. What a bunch of stuck-up snobs. How delightful it is that they were entertained by the destruction that was caused when the Hooch “breach[ed] its boundaries.”
@ Drew: I understand your point. The trash is unfortunate, but, trash can be retrieved, unlike the little children (and adults) who were tragically swept away in the floods. That was absolutely devastating.
Drew
September 24th, 2009
9:08 am
Thanks Mark. My point was not to negate the fact that people lost homes, property and lives, it was to express concern that calling heaps of trash floating down the river “dinner and a show” is inappropriate. Oh well, at the very least there were other meaningful contributions, here like Phil’s.
Mark
September 23rd, 2009
4:36 pm
I’m with Drew here, its truly appalling how much trash has been washed down. For those of you who are unconcerned, let me know where you live and I’ll come deposit the pile of garbage that washed down to my street onto your driveway. Since its not a big deal I’m sure you won’t mind.