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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Booze / Chow Now Closed: Detention (the Bar) in the U-District

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:58 PM

A Slog tipper says Detention, the school-themed bar on the Ave (with drinks like "Purple and Gold" and "Permanent Record"), is closed. The phone's been disconnected.

Detention started life as a second edition of Po Dog—the change occurred because "We felt that space in that location would be better suited to a bar. There's so much food on the Ave. We did consider keeping the original menu, but there just isn't enough space with a full bar," according to the manager at the time, Drew Hall.

Now school's apparently out forever. We've emailed owner Laura Olson (Po Dog, Auto Battery, Grim's, and Manhattan Drugs) asking why.

Meanwhile, a new second edition of Po Dog is scheduled to open in Ballard tomorrow, according to Eater Seattle.

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Dang. Never even went there.

But, some of my colleagues down at the VA Hospital said that they really love the food choices on the Ave when they come up here, compared to that portion of SE Seattle. So it might be a bit cut-throat.

When is the food review of KAOS in Fremont planned? Check out their Funk Brunch on Sunday.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on March 22, 2012 at 4:21 PM

Wait, people in the U District didn't want to pay for expensive hot dogs? Wow.

Posted by Andy on March 22, 2012 at 5:00 PM

@2 you mean: expensive and bland hot dogs.

Posted by go bulldogs on March 22, 2012 at 5:05 PM

Matt's Hot Dogs, formerly located on the corner of Brooklyn and 45th went out of business a couple years ago now. I think since then the location is on its second sandwich place. The building that is now in front of Cafe Allegro has already had one sandwich shop-mini mart-salad bar-type restaurant go out of business too.

Posted by internet_jen on March 22, 2012 at 5:20 PM

You can get hotdogs next to the Neptune.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on March 22, 2012 at 5:46 PM

Food wants to be free!

Posted by Toe Tag on March 22, 2012 at 6:49 PM

uh, cause hipsters don't hang out in the U District and the poor kids who live there can't afford over priced food and booze.

Also, East Side yuppies tend to avoid the U District...they prefer to graze on Capitol Hill.

Posted by michael strangeways