Like a bag hangover...

We admit to avoiding this issue for sometime. Partly, because we never really cared for the place and mostly because they never advertised in this publication. (We don't even admit our company published PLAY, who were frequent users and abusers of the place.)
But Grape Street Philadelphia. closed abruptly a few short weeks ago. The official reason is that the someone bid high enough on the building lease that Grape Street owners declined to match it.
the latest is that Mad River, a notable chain of bars, will be setting up shop in the old mill building. This is new place may have potential. There have been good times at Mad River but it in SOUTH CAROLINA.
Many people lament that Grape Street was never the same when it moved from its namesake, the actual Grape St. It has also been said that its successor, 105 Social, is a pale comparison.

So I give you Sweeney and Co.to give a bellwether on the feelings of a) a new Grape Street and b) new Mad River in Manayunk.

UPDATED: Dan Gross had a piece yesterday about Grape Street Owners being sued. All this bickering as Main St. falls back into the canal. Pull out the tiny violins.