Rocky's Aqua End of the Line

[chico bill]

Franks new place in Sosua will be a sports type bar. It will not be a puta bar.

They both involve penalties for 'hands to the face', 'unnecessary roughness' and 'early backfield in motion'. However I believe illegal man down field is allowed in the second type club. Oh and everyone celebrates scoring.

The sooner a gathering on Saturdays for college ball happens the better (actually Thursday night through Sunday night.)
I missed the thrashing LSU gave Miami Sun night but it was, from all accounts, like a school boy whipping. Made Ed Orgeron's job a little safer - for now.

And have you ever noticed LSU Tiger fans are everywhere ? What's with that ?
Now Louisiana - bet those fans can down hot hot wings and buckets of beer - and crayfish (could never get behind sucking the heads off those things - Big Yuk)

 

[windeguy]

Franks new place in Sosua will be a sports type bar. It will not be a puta bar.

Sounds like WW will not be pleased.

Oh well, sports bars are not my thing either.

 

[Cdn_Gringo]

I can see how a typical sports bar is an attractive business model here. There is a need I suppose but probably not enough of one to sustain all the holes in the wall with couple of TVs. Easy to equip, easy to operate and only a handful of people are not interested in sports it seems.

Hope springs eternal for someone to open a nice walled in club with AC, comfortable chairs and tables for cards, backgammon, crokinole ...

With a nice long dark wooden bar, with a selection of Int'l newspapers, a quiet place to read them, to take a break from what is generally the noise and chaotic humanity of the street.

Motos accelerating hard, horns, panhandlers, hearing "1st and 10" every 12 minutes and road dust getting into and onto everything isn't my idea of an enjoyable respite.

Good luck Frank. If you can put enough of the competition out of business, maybe something different will have a chance to open up.

 

[windeguy]

Cdn_Gringo, there is nothing easy to operate nor continuing to run for any bar in the DR. For example, take Rocky's Aqua,

Please.

All the hopes, all the DReams.

 

[Cdn_Gringo]

I was implying that a simplistic bar is logistically easier to operate than say a restaurant. Lots of obstacles and graft nonetheless but on a scale of 1 to 10 a simple bar is much lower down on the scale than a much larger establishment such as Rocky's would be.

But alas, I don't really care, I don't plan to patronize the place or open my own cuz I don't do sports bars.

 

[SKY]

The only problem Frank will have here will be fitting all the people that come on weekends in the place.

 

[Bred]

 

[jd426]

Now if he can only get LOU to Guest Bar Tend there.. it would be magical .. and packed

 

[chico bill]

I can see how a typical sports bar is an attractive business model here. There is a need I suppose but probably not enough of one to sustain all the holes in the wall with couple of TVs. Easy to equip, easy to operate and only a handful of people are not interested in sports it seems.

Hope springs eternal for someone to open a nice walled in club with AC, comfortable chairs and tables for cards, backgammon, crokinole ...

With a nice long dark wooden bar, with a selection of Int'l newspapers, a quiet place to read them, to take a break from what is generally the noise and chaotic humanity of the street.

Motos accelerating hard, horns, panhandlers, hearing "1st and 10" every 12 minutes and road dust getting into and onto everything isn't my idea of an enjoyable respite.

Good luck Frank. If you can put enough of the competition out of business, maybe something different will have a chance to open up.

Maybe a fern bar for you Captain?

 

[westcan]

Frank will only have a short walk to go find out why the Sosua Light (City Light) bar receipts say "Rocky's Aqua" on the bottom!

 

[cobraboy]

So why did Big Frank bail from Cabarete? Is that market dying?

 

[windeguy]

Now if he can only get LOU to Guest Bar Tend there.. it would be magical .. and packed

Frank12, that's gotta hurt...

 

[windeguy]

So why did Big Frank bail from Cabarete? Is that market dying?

A few bars that have the right formula are still doing OK on Cabarete beach, but it is the same story of Punta Cana getting all the promotion and cheap flight deals, the high airfares and horrible connections to POP , lack of hotel rooms on the north coast, etc that have the north coast far behind in tourism from a fairly short itime ago. It was a good idea to cash out on the beach in Cabarete and now the place has boomeranged back so it can be done again, but not sure why opening yet another bar in Sosua is happening.

Only Big Franks can say why he still wants to be in business on the north coast, but perhaps not in Cabarete.

 

[jd426]

There was a very Irish Bar just around the corner , on Rosen... and it failed , miserably....
So best of Luck on this New Irish bar.. it could be GREAT .. the Place itself had a huge following.. if they can bring THOSE Old Shark Bar Loyals back... it would be huge for them, again imo
THAT is what I meant by my comment .. .Those who know and Love LOU.. know exactly what i mean.. HE MADE THAT LOCATION what it was, it was not the LOCATION, it was LOU behind the Bar people came to see
. . Period ..

This Marketing advice was given free of charge , do with it what you will .......

 

[Timotero]

There was a very Irish Bar just around the corner , on Rosen... and it failed , miserably .......

Sounds like your referring to “Pedro McMurphys” ? (the space that’s now occupied by “Blue Ice”).
And actually it did quite well for the first year or so that it was open. The original owner (Tony P) had a good business plan. And personally ran it for the first year. Then he sold the place for a nice profit.

It was the succession of (short lived) owners that followed that were not profitable and the place eventually closed and was vacant for several years until Peter and Mariela took over the space and transformed it into Blue Ice.

 

[Tamborista]

Sounds like your referring to “Pedro McMurphys” ? (the space that’s now occupied by “Blue Ice”).
And actually it did quite well for the first year or so that it was open. The original owner (Tony P) had a good business plan. And personally ran it for the first year. Then he sold the place for a nice profit.

It was the succession of (short lived) owners that followed that were not profitable and the place eventually closed and was vacant for several years until Peter and Mariela took over the space and transformed it into Blue Ice.

Great name!

Blue ice, in the context of aviation, is frozen sewage material that has leaked mid-flight from commercial aircraft lavatory waste systems. It is a mixture of human biowaste and liquid disinfectant that freezes at high altitude.

 

[frank12]

Frank12, that's gotta hurt...

Haha, I haven't bartended since 2009. I can't even remember how to make a Mojito anymore. But yes, I know Lou well. I think he would be fantastic...but there's a chance he might drink more then he sells!

PS. Last time i saw Lou, he and I and another retired NYC detective (a good friend of mine who i stay with in NYC) all got together in Staten Island, or maybe it was Brooklyn. Lou ended up getting this guys old badge. Can you imagine...in a city of 20,000+ cops! They didn't even know each other until they met in Sosua about 12-years ago!

Lou: Hey Baby...you look fabulous!"

Me. Lou, I'm a guy. Put your glasses on!

 

[SKY]

Lou was actually spotted in Sosua about two weeks or less ago.

 

[frank12]

Lou was actually spotted in Sosua about two weeks or less ago.

True, he came into Big Frank's place with a friend from NYC.

 

[windeguy]

Great name!

Blue ice, in the context of aviation, is frozen sewage material that has leaked mid-flight from commercial aircraft lavatory waste systems. It is a mixture of human biowaste and liquid disinfectant that freezes at high altitude.

Maybe they could come up with drink to complement that name. Something like :

Yellow Snow