Looks like another Grove restaurant is gone
Le Moulin on Main Highwy looks like it's gone. The place is empty as of yesterday.
posted by Tom Falco at 8:00 AM
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We were astonished to see LeMoulin all closed up yesterday. It will be missed. We lunched instead at a restaurant we love in South Miami and the owner told us he wasn't at all surprised at Moulin's closing. Is it possible that Moulin fell victim to GL (greedy landlord) syndrome - something that has cost Coconut Grove more than its fair share of great restaurants and stores over the years? For every vacant store front it seems somehow there are hopefuls waiting in the wings to try their turn. In addition to the parking horror which you have blogged about all week, there's the matter of high rents. One really does have to wonder how anything not only survives, but thrives. Seems like a lot more to handle than just the fickleness of the restaurant business. What a loss for the Grove. Oh, by the way, the owner in South Miami was very pleased to have just renewed his lease - and his landlord didn't raise his rent!
Muffins and lattes were a Saturday morning routine for us - I hope our move out of town didn't help close them down!
Bonne chance les mecs! (Good luck guys)-- Carlos
they were in a tough spot, with 3 other french restauraunts in 1 block of them, and the super popular bouchon right across the street.
too bad nonetheless. would make for a great deli though. that spot that is.
BIC spend $70,000.00, just to count parking spots in the Grove, then the three visitor booths, etc, etc and etc, of our precious tax dollars and yet another business is gone. A few people are destroying the Grove, decreasing the value of buildings, spending our tax dollars and in the end these few special people and a few developers will have some very cheap real estate to play with using our tax dollars.
Or maybe it was the fact that were very expensive compared to their competition? How many of you ate there instead of the other more affordable, yet comparable, restaurants in the grove ?
Anon 11:49,
The BIC hasn't done any parking studies nor installed any visitor booths...both projects were initiated and funded by other entities.
I've have been here for the past five winters, and in that time I have always wondered how they managed to stay in business for so long. The place was always empty. I tried it once, and learned why. French cuisine, it was not.
It was reported in the Grape that a parking study was done. It was also in the Miami Herald and several comments affirmed this. As to if this actually took place, who knows as I never witinessed this. BIC stated it did happen, so when the books are opened, Ha, we'll all know the truth about where the BIC tax dollars are going. Do you see anything wrong with presenting these books to the Grape so we can get the facts "IF" our tax dollars being spent on such stupidity?
Anon 12:32 Please, if you can make such a statement would you care to share with us what entity initiated these two projects? That's question number one. Question # 2. Did you know that when the visitors booths were installed Miami City had to purchase that part of Main Highway because the booths block the view of the road and were placed without code approval? So now we in Miami are liable for anyone who gets hit by a car when stepping onto the street? Dade County did'nt want the liability after such was pointed out to them. Who did that?
I have lived in the Grove over 20 years and one day many years ago went in there to ask about their menu and if they were on Code 33, the owner or manager was rude and started cussing at me, and I never set foot in that place again.
Guess who financed the Sonesta Beach Hotel Garage to the tune of $2.1-million? Who are the payments going to? Open those books.
Too bad! I really enjoyed having breakfast there on lazy Saturday mornings. I would have never had dinner there, for example, since Bouchon is so much better and now there's George's, but the breakfast was good.
Shame, I liked to have breakfast at the Moulin. After owner: Philip's wife passed away the family business sort of fell apart.
To help businesses lower taxes and insurance costs. Since the 1990's taxes and insurance costs increased without resistance according to the good economy, now we cannot afford those increases anymore, there are landlords who have to collect more property taxes, sales taxes and insurance fees from tenants than they make on their investments in the Grove.
Great spot for a new wonderful restaurant to open. I to had a problem with the old owners when I asked for a Code 33 discount. That spot will be rented real soon
Anonymous is bitching about the Sonesta Beach Hotel Garage. What are you talking about?? You have no idea what you are talking about ! Get your facts clear. Also where is the Sonesta Beach Hotel?? Maybe you mean the Sonesta Bayfront hotel Condo?? Hello !!!
Anon 6:57,
Both the cost and funding entity for the parking study were reported here in the Grapevine in a post dated June 21, 2008. It wasn't $70,000 and it wasn't the BIC.
As for the booths, I merely stated that they were not funded by the BIC, not whether they were a good idea nor might have other unintended consequences.
Your apparent inabilitiy to research these matters is not really my problem.
Anon 12:32
Anon 12:32, Pleae Anon, who did it? Cat got your tongue. And yes, Bayfront or beach, still the same garage and the same financing. And I see you know what garage I made reference to. Get technical, but nothing has changed.
The food was mediocre at best, the Owner was a rude, boorish man that yelled at my husband when he asked for his eggs to be cooked a bit more. I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did. Good riddance! I hope we get a good deli, but would settle for anyplace with nice "grove-ite" service (that takes the 33 of course)! :-)
How about another French restaurant for the spot, just kiddin. What is going on there anyway, is the space for rent or has the restaurant been sold already?
Went there with a friend for breakfast and had a horrible time. My friend asked for a side order of one egg to be added to her pancake order and we were told it would be an extra $5.00. The manager then came over and began lecturing us on adding items to dishes and said they would not make the egg. We had no problem paying a fee (even if it is overpriced) but we did have a problem with the treatment received. I tried to go there two other times and both times the service was worse than before. I have avoided that place since the hurricane season in 2005. Sad to see another business close but at the same time the food was overpriced and the service was bad.
MC575
Im not surprised to see this place closed. The food was awful. I unfortunately took my folks there once when they were in from out of town when I was trying to test out all Grove restaurants and I regretted that decision big time. Hopefully the next spot to take up camp there will be a winner.
a listing says that they closed due to an illness in the family and they are auctioning everything off tuesday.
Right! Where's BIC?
Kosher Deli ? Bagel Shop? In & Out Hamburgers? hmm
Real Chinese restaurant pleaaaaase
Sailfact----what, bitching? I say the Sonesta Beach/Bayfront Hotel parking garage was said to have been financed by BIC and I wondered in my comment how could our tax dollars go to pay for a private parking garage. Hit a nerve, did I! I want some of that BIC money too, bitch, my, my, my.
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