Archive for the ‘6164 Saint Andrews Road’ tag
Ankh Life International Vegan Cafe, 6164 Saint Andrews Road: May 2014 24 comments
Luce Cucina Italiana, 6164 Saint Andrews Road: 11 April 2013 14 comments
Wata Wing, 6164 Saint Andrews Road: February 2011 45 comments
I was a bit reluctant to do this post yet, hoping that the place was going to make it, but I've been by several times within the posted hours (including a Saturday evening) and found it dark (though the phone still rings..)
At any rate, I first wrote of this building when I did a closing for longtime tenant Little Mexico and follow-on Cancun.
After Cancun another Mexican operation Mi Tierra set up shop in the building, and lasted about a year. (And you should visit both of those closing links because the previous comments and pictures for Wata Wing are spread out between them).
After Mi Tierra closed, there were indications fairly early on that the place was to become a Wata Wing chicken wing operation. The setup seemed quite protracted, and with the stall out of the Wata Wing roll-out in the old Taco Bell on Knox Abbott:
combined with reports of some legal difficulties the chain (which I should stress is probably totally different people in different areas) was facing in Maryland, it seemed for a time that this location might not open.
In the event it did open some time between 3 November 2010 and 1 December 2010 when commenter Badger stopped by.
I had thought, given this sign:
that the operation might be headed in a Hooters, Wing House direction with the "Wata Girls" front and center, but that seems not to have been the case.
If this location is closed (and it certainly seems to be), then that would throw into question the opening of a Wata Wing in the old Shoney's/Santa Fe/Savannah's location on Two Notch Road:
Mi Tierra Mexican Restaurant, 6164 Saint Andrews Road: 1 May 2010 10 comments
Well, it is a bit sad to see their street sign proclaiming their first anniversary and then to have them closed 16 days later, but that's how it happens sometimes. (Though they apparently still have an operation in Florence).
I wrote about this building first in a closing for Cancun / Little Mexico, so the building has been at least three different Mexican restaurants. Loopnet says the place was built in 1980 and is a "Spanish Style" restaurant, so it probably has been Mexican restaurants since it was built. Notice also the fundamental tension in the Loopnet write-up (apparently left over from 2007 or so) between keeping something secret and posting it on the Internet..
I did not yet notice any "for sale" signs on the building last week, but I suppose it will be another Mexican restaurant someday.
(Hat tip to commenter IrmoJeff)
UPDATE 29 Sep 2010: The restaurant is being converted into a Wata Wing -- or maybe not.
Commenter Matt found this PDF of a legal action in Maryland against Wata Wing which seems to basically indicate that while there may be legit WW restaurants, the franchaising operation is pretty much a scam. The work being done on the Mi Teirra building matches the description in the PDF pretty much to a tee, right down to the work on the floors and the note on the door indicating that it was started without getting the proper permits. To me, the oddest thing in the PDF is that apparently none of the people in Maryland investing in WW franchaises ever asked to visit an operating WW, or at least that's the implication I'm getting. The Taco Bell on Knox Abbott seems to be in a similar state of Wata Wing stall-out.
