Instead of an antique bar, the design choice was a much newer, bright, streamlined bar that accents the tin ceilings and dark floors above and below it. The design choices seem to blend the historic look of the building with a modern, sleeker style in the furniture. There’s also a pretty large bar right as you walk in the door. We picked a table near the window looking back out at the rush of traffic on Leonard Street. There were a variety of seating options from picnic tables, to pub tables, to four tops. A waitress told us to grab a seat anywhere in the large dining room lit by natural light coming in from the large windows that surround the outside of the space. We walked in to a fairly empty restaurant at a little after 5:00. We hopped off the Interstate at Wealthy and weaved through downtown to find a gravel parking lot just a few doors down that had signs saying we could park there. A crash on US-131 NB slowed traffic to a crawl. Getting to Grand Rapids northside was a mess on this Friday rush hour. The building from the 1880’s was a clothing store called Urban Fit for many years before being turned into a distillery but had a long life before that as many different things. The distillery and restaurant sit at the corner of Leonard Street and Quarry Avenue. Long Road Distillers is on Grand Rapids northside. I thought we’d do something different and do cocktails before the show instead of a beer flight. I knew Long Road existed but didn’t realize they had a kitchen. Long Road Distillers is the restaurant I chose after seeing a segment on EightWest earlier in the day. I had to come up with a Plan B quickly and once again, having a local lifestyle show on TV for white noise gave me a great idea. Our original plan was to stop at Four Roses Cafe in Plainwell for dinner on our way to Grand Rapids but we realized they don’t open until 5:00. L is in Wisconsin with J’s parents so we were set up for a pretty good night out. We got my mom and aunt to come to town to watch B. They put out a new album which means a new tour and a stop in Grand Rapids gave us an opportunity to see them for the sixth time. The group disbanded for a few years but recently got back together after the whole solo thing didn’t really work out for either of them. Since then, we’ve seen Sugarland four more times. One of the first dates J and I ever went on was to see Sugarland at the Illinois State Fair.
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