Final Storefront post and restaurant news
Good morning, blog readers. Today is my last day blogging here at the Storefront, and my last day at The Roanoke Times. I will miss all of you. Thanks for all of your insightful comments here on the blog in the past several years.
I’ll leave you with a final bit of news about the fate of a downtown Roanoke restaurant. The owners of Arzu Mediterranean Restaurant want to sell their business and the eatery’s real estate at 213 Williamson Road.
Photo courtesy of Poe & Cronk Real Estate Group
The 9,850-square-foot structure is featured in a sales listing with Poe & Cronk Real Estate Group, with a price tag of $799,000, which is reduced from about $900,000 originally, said real estate agent, Peter Ostaseski.
Meanwhile, the Demirci family, the owners of Arzu, want to move on from the restaurant business after 23 years in downtown Roanoke, said Halil Demirci, who operates the eatery. They opened their first restaurant, Mediterranean Continental Cuisine, on Campbell Avenue in downtown Roanoke. In 1996, they purchased the Williamson Road structure and moved the restaurant there, renaming it Arzu Mediterranean Restaurant.
Demirci told me that his father now runs a bed and breakfast in Turkey.
Arzu will remain open until the restaurant is sold, Demirci said.
May 18, 2011 - 11:09 AM
Best of luck with your future endeavors, I’ve enjoyed the blog thoroughly.
*sniff*
Good luck, Jenny!
All the best. Will miss your blog.
What are you up to next Jenny? We will miss you!
We love Arzu’s!! Please someone by it and keep it open!!!!!
Good luck at Roanoke College, Jenny. We will miss your sleuthing, but will think of you when we shop at the Kohl’s opening near Tanglewood.
Best wishes to you, Jenny. You will be missed!!
Thanks to all of you for the well wishes! I really appreciate them:)
jenny, I wish you well and hope this is a good move for you! I wish you well and will certainly miss your bloggin! Getting back into clinical practice, watch for the advertisment in the paper in a few weeks!
We will miss Arzu restaurant. Our daughter, who is married to a Turkish gentleman and lives in Turkey (forget WV being a little bit of Heaven, visit Turkey and see the real thing!), had her wedding reception at Arzu’s – the social pinnacle for our friends and family for many years. I hope the new owners will continue the Mediteraneum/Turkish menu for Roanoke diners.
Jenny Boone’s feature writing will be equally missed. Thank you Jenny for your stories about small businesses, our struggles and our successes.
Ernie Bentley
Pilot, Virginia
I wish you only the best in your future endeavors, whatever and wherever life takes you.
Jenny, best of luck. Have really enjoyed your blogs over the years. Got a lot of good info.
Good Luck Jenny. I will misss your Blog. Thanks
Jenny I truly wish you the best of luck and hope that you will LOVE it at RC! That is an awesome place and I think you will be happy there! They are lucky to have you. I too have really enjoyed reading and commenting on your blog! Take good care.
Jenny-Sorry to see you go. I’ve enjoyed your blogs over the last several years and have depended on them to keep up with daily business news in Roanoke. Best of luck with the new venture!
You will be missed. I always looked forward to your article on Sunday morning. You kept me abreast of where to shop and eat in the Roanoke Valley. I was always “in the know” reading your column and blog. Good luck.
So long, Hope you are moving to better places. I find it strange that the paper makes news of any changes in the local restaurant business. Why the free advertising ? Why not the same for other businesses ?
Jenny, I am deeply saddened… of all the blogs yours was the only one I found worth reading. I wish you much success in whatever your life-road has in store for you. I am certain you will find it — job Well Done!
Sorry to see you go! Thanks for all the great blogs!
Good luck, Jenny! The retail beat won’t be the same without you.
You will be greatly missed-Good Luck!
I’m sorry to hear Jenny left as well but let’s get on with this great blog again – it’s been down too long!
@wayles: Sorry you’ve missed us! Look for a new blogger (me!) and new posts by early next week.