Let's save Anokha from becoming a loud club
Anohka, the Indian Restaurant, with the best Indian food around is struggling. Since they moved from their very successful space on Commodore Plaza to Virginia Street, they have had a hard time of it.
Now they are trying to be a club (with Indian cuisine?).
This is a current ad running:
We are searching for professional experienced promoters with a proven track record of results. We are looking to attract professional and sophisticated clientele with an age range of 27-50. We offer over 4000 sq ft of indoor/outdoor space, International cuisine with an Indo-Asian concentration, Full-bar, extensive wine list, modern and sexy design, and full sound system. DJs available upon request. We are willing to negotiate on all fronts and offer the best bar percentage around. Every day of the week available for events.
Another noisy club for the neighbors to complain about? Perhaps if the neighbors that like to complain would dine at Anokha, it could stay alive as a restaurant. I don't mind the club aspect, but I hate to see a great restaurant turn into a club simply because no one is dining there.
Now they are trying to be a club (with Indian cuisine?).
This is a current ad running:
We are searching for professional experienced promoters with a proven track record of results. We are looking to attract professional and sophisticated clientele with an age range of 27-50. We offer over 4000 sq ft of indoor/outdoor space, International cuisine with an Indo-Asian concentration, Full-bar, extensive wine list, modern and sexy design, and full sound system. DJs available upon request. We are willing to negotiate on all fronts and offer the best bar percentage around. Every day of the week available for events.
Another noisy club for the neighbors to complain about? Perhaps if the neighbors that like to complain would dine at Anokha, it could stay alive as a restaurant. I don't mind the club aspect, but I hate to see a great restaurant turn into a club simply because no one is dining there.
posted by Tom Falco at 10:00 AM
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20 Comments:
This fits right in with the 'bailout mentality' we're having lately...jeez. Here's another idea: How about Anokha helps us by lowering their prices... We all know the answer. I counter that with: well, let their landlord and the city lower their prices too! Why not ask them for a bailout? I'm tired of US getting the bill for all of those in trouble. If they can't make it, so be it.
If things get worse [and it will, I assure you] we'll see this board asking for help for one after another biz in the Grove.
From,
Fed Up, N.C. Grove
ps. I dine and like Anokha very much.
ok here is the deal, none of these restaurants are advertising themselves well. why not band together, get a few of those directory maps like at the malls and place them strategically around. ALSO offer delivery, since people are working longer hours, have less time for dining out.
Seriously they should have had a sign out today during the marathon, thousands of people ran by. Pommes and pannes was open... they could have at least put up a sign indicating what they serve there. OR given out water.
p.s. i heard rumors cabana one was closing.
Also wasn't there a club in that exact same spot 4 years ago? club 609 or something?
Lowering prices and serving plebeian food or at least have it on the menu for us who must budget. I would love to work with them on a fixe prix menu where Artists who will be in the Grove, coming for workshops or open drawing can have a fixed prix menu. On certain days and certain times. That would certainly them and others who are curious. Plus this would introduce many to their fare then grape could twitter it:).
Anoka should of stayed where they were. I just went to their old location on Friday night, which is now Jacobs, and we had a great time. The food was good and they had a live flamenco show which was awesome. They made a big mistake trying to go "big".
Anokha should have put their bar up front so people walking by could have seen activity out there and put the restaurant in the back. They supersized when they just should have enlarged a little. I would like to support them but I am not crazy about Indian food and they should offer items for people who are with a party that came for the themed food. Do to go there for food I am not crazy about and pay that kind of money is not going to work for me. Now they are going to have competition with a bar named Peacock. I thought that was the name of their bar.
Hey,
You know - let businesses fail!
From GM to the local restaurant.
Bad business decissions = failure.
This country got all of us to where we are today based upon hard work and investing in ourselves, taking a chance, and employing others. The GRAPE is doing this right now.
Those looking for the great bailout
I call teat suckers.
Help those who really need help, and let the rest get a life.
Bleeding hearts - please respond.
The Russian
While I'm not a 100% do or die capitalist (I would socialize education and health care so everyone would have real access), this is one ocassion where capitalism works well. Anokha doesn't seem to be offering anything anyone wants at the price they are offering it at.
They could lower the price and see if they can make up in volume what they can't seem to be making at their price. That's called price elasticity.
They could change their cuisine. That's adaptation.
They could advertise. That would be smart.
But, for us --the public-- to treat them as some sort of "cause" that we need to support. That's called stupid.
I really feel bad for Annokha, but it goes to show that the businesses in the Grove can't survive on locals! Coconut Grove needs people from other parts of Miami, tourists, etc. because locals in the Grove are too cheap and always have to have a discount or some incentive to be able to dine and shop in their own "village".
Rhetoric, Rhetoric, and more Rhetoric. People will come back to the grove when people are in control of the grove. People/Folks, not sophisticated money tables. The grove is not full of people too cheap to support the various grove businesses, rather, we want value for out dollars and we all know that the grove is an empty tourist; not even trap. The grove is presently nothing. Print this Grape.
Bad Karma
To Anon 10:27 - that's stupid. Do you think the people in the Gables are in control of the Gables? Who are you?
I do feel bad for Anokah even though I feel they made a bad decision. I can't help to feel bad when a Grove business fails after having so many good years. But then again I never go there either...I guess alot of Grovites do the same as me....Feel bad but do nothing about it.
Anokha is struggling because their food is terrible. I've tried them twice since they moved to the new location and was disappointed both times. They have completely changed their menu into a bland, fusion-style, it is now merely "indian themed" not real, traditional indian. At this point, with bad service, old bread, and lackluster food, I'm hoping they'll just fade away.
their new menu is pretty bad, they never really found their footing after the relocation. I walk by there often and see them mostly empty. too bad. they used to be pretty good, now i think they're trying to modernize the menu and its not working.
If you know them, tell them to contact, Tara Solomon, or Terry Zarikhian who brought China Grill group from crap to success. Tara is amazing girl, expensive but one of the best PR groups in the country.
Anokha went to big in a bad location and they will NOT MAKE IT unless the invest money constantly into marketing and PR.
Anon @ 9:37am - youre exactly right. Ive been saying that about a lot of Grove businesses for years but they never seem to get it.
Hey, they were pretty busy on Sunday. When they moved Obviously they were slow but their traffic has been picking up constantly.
Tp Anom 7:31
No, people in the Gables are not in control of the Gables, and people in the Grove are not in control of the Grove, etc, etc and etc, but there are people who do control their home turf all over the world and if you study their communities you will see they are in control of what takes place around them, but I guess that translates into you hating authority figures, right? Put your tail between you legs and get out of here punk.
Unfortunately, my wife and I are of the mindset that Anokha has made its own bed. We were huge fans of the old Anokha despite the high prices. Now, the menu has changed, the prices are higher, and the authentic charm has been replaced by an uncomfortable and shallow ambiance. We want so bad to like it there, but we can't! We ordered take out a couple of weeks ago and they charged a take-out fee, which really rubbed us the wrong way...I preferred when we had to wait two hours for two entrees because Ms. Anokha was in that tiny little kitchen making it happen - that was an awesome place...
And did they really think they'd need seating for like 200 people???
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