Updates on Boheme and OXO Rumors

Posted by Scowly on June 30th, 2008 58 Comments

We just got more secrets from another birdie which totally contradicted our prior set of rumors/news on OXO and Boheme.  Who knows if they are true or not, but they come from a very reliable source. So, what is going on at OXO and Boheme?!  Details after the break…

OXO - Looks like we got the “sold” part wrong.  Instead the $7,000+ monthly rent wasn’t getting covered and the current owner of the building is looking for something to take Oxo’s place.  We don’t know details on the deal, but it was a very expensive lease and it would be hard to turn enough cash to make this location work.  Given the commentary and lack of gossip about what’s coming next (and even one from its prior owner, Alice), this makes sense.  Given no new owner has popped up, it will probably be a while until we see something replace OXO.

Boheme - While we mentioned that Boheme would be some sort of high end Italian place, it looks like nothing was inked and that deal has fallen through.  There are apparanlty 3 to 4 bidders of well-known local restaurants trying to get this space, but no word on what it will be or when it closes.

Remember, rumors should be taken with a grain of sea salt.

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58 Responses to “Updates on Boheme and OXO Rumors”

  1. 30 Jun 2008 at 3:03 pm1shenanigans said:

    RE: OXO: Fail. But I bet people would like to think that.
    RE:Boheme: That is true.

  2. 30 Jun 2008 at 3:17 pm2k bear said:

    Boheme is also looked at for high end Mexican bar with lots of yummy tequila.

  3. 30 Jun 2008 at 3:37 pm3grin and bear it said:

    Don’t we already have one of those …Continental Divide

  4. 30 Jun 2008 at 3:42 pm4shenanigans said:

    The Divide has been doing a lot of FAIL lately is what I’ve heard.

  5. 30 Jun 2008 at 3:52 pm5434, baby! said:

    I was at The Divide on Friday and it was awesome, as usual!

  6. 30 Jun 2008 at 3:57 pm6shenanigans said:

    Because you’re a rockstar.

  7. 30 Jun 2008 at 9:55 pm7danpri said:

    F&B rule of thumb. You need to bag your rent in two days sales or your toast. The place was a high end mex joint with Maryland owners that traveled daily before John and an even worse empty burnt warehouse with a parking lot filled with portapotties to handle the FA5 crowd before that.

    John almost took over the old Pockets space, and did wonders with what he had. From kicking out breakfast at Keswick Hall to what he did, for so long is pretty amazing.

    I could drink his reductions out of a bowl and be happy. To bag them as clear and silky as he did was pretty kicking.

  8. 01 Jul 2008 at 8:07 am8k bear said:

    In terms of OXO, how does the sale of the restaurant and all it’s contents (according to the Hook) square with the sale of the business? What I mean is if it’s still going to be a food establishment won’t the new owner keep some of the old stuff?

    With the limited amount of information presented it looks more like a real estate deal the the sale of a going concern.

  9. 01 Jul 2008 at 8:37 am9Thor said:

    @8, it doesn’t. It sounds like this is a settlement (bankruptcy) auction, so they will pay the creditors as much as they can out of the proceeds.

  10. 01 Jul 2008 at 10:00 am10Silmo Syrup said:

    but what about the children

  11. 01 Jul 2008 at 2:00 pm11shenanigans said:

    @9: Wrong wrong wrongity wrong. It was sold to someone out of town. Who’s auctioning it off. And it wasn’t bankruptcy. They would never do that to their vendors.

  12. 01 Jul 2008 at 2:01 pm12Thor said:

    @11, I have no idea, but why would you buy something and auction it immediately?

  13. 01 Jul 2008 at 2:08 pm13shenanigans said:

    And that is why you are neither a landlord nor a restaurant owner my friend.

  14. 01 Jul 2008 at 2:12 pm14Thor said:

    I own lands full of restaurants.

  15. 01 Jul 2008 at 2:15 pm15shenanigans said:

    Your bedroom full of stuffed animals is not = lands full of restaurants

  16. 01 Jul 2008 at 2:21 pm16Stanley said:

    bedroom full of stuffed animals

    Does a turducken count? Thor, you should get some turduckens in your bedroom, so you can refute #15.

  17. 01 Jul 2008 at 2:22 pm17colfer said:

    They want it as empty as possible so it can host this year’s Artini, Wunderkammer/Shentai, and a larger space for CLAW, Derby Dames and the local parcheesi club.

  18. 01 Jul 2008 at 2:30 pm18shenanigans said:

    @16: Omfg. That makes me wanna barf.
    @17: You wish.

  19. 01 Jul 2008 at 2:31 pm19Thor said:

    The verity blue/milano place would be SWEEEEET for Artini!!

  20. 01 Jul 2008 at 2:36 pm20shenanigans said:

    Hate to break your hearts but there will be no Artini this year. We broke that story on Muse awhile ago.

  21. 01 Jul 2008 at 3:02 pm21Silmo Syrup said:

    I heard they were doing an Artini to benefit B Yo’s Dilapidated Porch Fund.

  22. 01 Jul 2008 at 3:10 pm22colfer said:

    spike heels ‘n’ bikinis ‘n’ loose porch boards
    no alkyhawl even required at that level of cupiditous allegration.

  23. 01 Jul 2008 at 3:17 pm23shenanigans said:

    SPEAK ENGLISH

  24. 01 Jul 2008 at 3:31 pm24Stanley said:

    ….sez the one who’s always commenting in Chinese.

  25. 01 Jul 2008 at 3:45 pm25shenanigans said:

    Yeah, but there’s a Google translator tool for Chinese. Colfer translator tool? Not so much.

  26. 01 Jul 2008 at 3:54 pm26scoriole said:

    @22:

    you make up words, eh? i like.

  27. 01 Jul 2008 at 4:04 pm27frenchy said:

    @25 nay nay, thanks for the euro soccer at zinc shout out the place was packed.

  28. 01 Jul 2008 at 4:07 pm28shenanigans said:

    Je fais ce que je peux.
    I would have come but I had to do housework.

  29. 01 Jul 2008 at 4:07 pm29frenchy said:

    don’t forget la fete de la bastille

  30. 01 Jul 2008 at 4:09 pm30Chartreuse said:

    @27— a great time was definitely had by all.

  31. 01 Jul 2008 at 4:16 pm31shenanigans said:

    @29: I’ll be at X. But vive la France!

  32. 01 Jul 2008 at 4:26 pm32frenchy said:

    i thought X is closed on Monday ?

  33. 01 Jul 2008 at 4:27 pm33shenanigans said:

    Haha, I looked at June. I AM SO THERE!

  34. 01 Jul 2008 at 4:30 pm34frenchy said:

    cool,
    we got a French dj for the 14th, i will send out the official poster to Thor this week.

  35. 01 Jul 2008 at 4:39 pm35colfer said:

    SORRY I was thinking of the word CONCUPISCENSE but I couldn’t remember it so I punted.
    Concupiscent front porch dancing babe. Heeeeeeeeenry!

  36. 01 Jul 2008 at 4:41 pm36colfer said:

    um, CONCUPISCENCE

  37. 01 Jul 2008 at 4:46 pm37shenanigans said:

    wwwwwwwwtfffffffff

  38. 01 Jul 2008 at 4:51 pm38Stanley said:

    I continue to support the new stoned and loquacious poetry-slamming colfer.

  39. 01 Jul 2008 at 4:51 pm39shenanigans said:

    Who’s Henry?

  40. 01 Jul 2008 at 6:01 pm40colfer said:

    Love shack, baby, love shack.

  41. 01 Jul 2008 at 6:14 pm41Stanley said:

    40: Heh. I used to mis-hear it that way, too. I think what you’re looking for is “tin roof, rusted!”:

    A girl gets pregnant like in the song Love Shack by the B-52’s.

  42. 01 Jul 2008 at 9:15 pm42happy canuck said:

    my guess is there is no buyer for oxo. best wishes to John and Alice, they are true professionals.

    landlord can make some dough selling the equipment. then lease to a new tenant who will upfit the space all over again. then said tenant may fail, as they often do, which would make the landlord even more money, continuing the cycle.

    shenanigans can feel free to call me an idiot and that there is a buyer, i’m just guessing.

  43. 01 Jul 2008 at 9:16 pm43Lu Sid said:

    What?! I never knew that. How do you people know this stuff?!

  44. 01 Jul 2008 at 9:24 pm44Chartreuse said:

    pop-up video.

  45. 01 Jul 2008 at 9:43 pm45Lu Sid said:

    Good call! Is that still on?

  46. 01 Jul 2008 at 9:58 pm46Chartreuse said:

    I don’t know, as I don’t have cable; I have a feeling that VH1 no longer has the good sense to even run reruns, alas.

  47. 01 Jul 2008 at 10:01 pm47Lu Sid said:

    I’m with you - no cable. I would definitely pay for Pop-Up Video DVDs.

  48. 01 Jul 2008 at 10:04 pm48Chartreuse said:

    I think I would, too. I’m not so hot on music videos in general but man, it was like popcorn, I just couldn’t avoid watching it when it was on back then. It made the most atrocious music interesting… I think I even have some Shania Twain factoids folded into my brain somewhere…

  49. 02 Jul 2008 at 8:55 am49Lu Sid said:

    I agree I would get so hooked it would just stay on the TV while I cleaned or did whatever. I am so going to look into that.

  50. 02 Jul 2008 at 5:51 pm50CvilleGourmand said:

    OXOs single lot auction brought in a whopping $3,000.

  51. 02 Jul 2008 at 6:23 pm51parlie said:

    whoa! slow down, moneybags, where’d'ya think yer goin’ with all them nickels?

    i’ve sold dying cars for more than that.

  52. 03 Jul 2008 at 1:53 am52Kyle said:

    Actually it brought in nothing. The winning bid was the landlord’s, he was only going to sell if it went above a much higher price

  53. 03 Jul 2008 at 7:53 am53k bear said:

    The kitchen equipment was bought by the landlord as CvilleGourmand said for $3000. This looks like a classic paying off of debt move. According to the Hook the landlord would have gone much higher. Capshaw’s group bid $2000 but in the article it’s say that bid wasn’t for the group. It was for the handyman so he could fix up and resale the stuff.
    “The list included thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment– four gas stoves, refrigerators, an espresso machine, two computers, cash registers, cooking equipment, stereos, and nearly 140 pieces of furniture, to name just a few of the items.” There was no mention of cheese

  54. 03 Jul 2008 at 10:01 am54shenanigans said:

    I got the cheese. And joke’s on them because that espresso machine don’t work.

  55. 15 Jul 2008 at 4:56 pm55frenchy said:

    Not sure if that’s a breaking news but Charlottesville is getting another Tapas joint.

  56. 15 Jul 2008 at 4:57 pm56Thor said:

    Is that yours, frenchy?

  57. 15 Jul 2008 at 5:01 pm57Gobbler said:

    I think you’re talking about the old Starr HIll building?

  58. 15 Jul 2008 at 7:08 pm58frenchy said:

    Correct, some dude from richmond who own “bank” and “si” . Main street is getting some respect

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