Dive bar enthusiasts collectively mourned when one of their faves, Hideout Lounge, closed for good on May 8.
It's down-low location, smoke-filled art openings and retro pinball are missed by many.
Looks like a new bar will be opening in its place, Cantina la Malquerida, at 240 Park Street. They are applying for an alcohol bar license in Wednesday's city council meeting.
Not much is known about the bar at this time, I can't find much info...but the space will be reopening! Stay tuned.
The hideout was a drug infested shithole that attracted scum. No way that place closing affected your livelihood, unless you were slangin rocks from behind the bar. hopefully they put something classy in. Go work at the Ramada or the cal Neva, you will fit in great!
This place should be boycotted. I stand with Nikki. "Some Guy" probably just regrets his coke habit and is projecting.
Despite the opinion of "some guy", I loved The Hideout. It was a great little casual place that was justly proud of it's dive reputation, which further endeared it to many of us. I didn't go often but when I did I always had a great time surrounded by fun, welcoming folks. It was a great place to bring or meet up with folks and I miss it. As far as a boycott goes, I wish there was a way to impact the slum lord directly. Unless Debbie Bogart will be the owner of the new bar I'm not sure how I feel about boycotting someone who's just trying to start a business in a town where commercial space is getting harder to come by. Especially if they were clueless about what had happened there previously; hard enough to start a new business without half the town hating on you! Now, if it turns out that Debbie Bogart owns, or has an ownership share, in the new business then, oh hell yeah, count me in! I'll host some boycott sign making parties at my house and walk the boycott line too! Either way, I won't be going to the new place---it just won't have the heart and soul of The Hideout so what's the point? Long live The Hideout, if only in our fond memories.
Maybe if they turn down those flood lights they call bar lights down. Driving by it looks like grocery store lighting in there.
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I bartended at the Hideout Lounge for 10 years and we lost our home when the slumlord DEBBIE BOGART booted us. It was obviously premeditated.She often refused to fix anything in our business, often paying out of pocket. Upon our vacancy, one of the salons next door moved out too due to flooding that she refused to remedy caused by her letting people live upstairs...IN A COMMERCIAL BUILDING. I hope they go out of business months after opening. I lost my livelihood because of this bullshit and had to scramble, as did many other people. BOYCOTT THIS PLACE.