In 2016, The Broadway hotel focuses on restaurant success. Twenty-three months in, The Broadway has received recognition among Doubletree properties, blown past occupancy rates and developed one of Columbia’s go-to bars in The Roof. This year, General Manager Bob McDonald says the boutique hotel is focusing on making their in-house restaurant, ElevenEleven, one of the […]
I belong to a local community of about 500 moms on my Facebook who ask questions, give and receive advice, and seek recommendations about all sorts of issues. One of the things that I have seen come up on several occasions are questions about kids parties. Since I have put on quite a few in my
DogMaster Distillery brings back the classic cocktail. It’s 10 a.m. and I’m drinking whiskey on the job. It’s straight from the barrel, free of mixers, chasers, even ice. It burns my throat on the way down — my liquor is usually masked with a Diet Pepsi. It’s a lot of pressure, trying a glass of
General Manager John LaRocca and Chef Daniel Pliska of the University Club commit to developing future chefs and leaders. What happens when you take students with an appetite to learn, combine them with a mentor who has a heart to train young people, then toss them into a real-life laboratory to experiment and create?
Job description: I’m responsible for operations of The Tiger Hotel, Glenn’s Café, The Vault, The Velvet Cupcake, The Industry and May Contain Nuts. Years lived in Columbia/mid-Missouri: 40-plus years Original hometown: I was born in Waco, Texas, but I call Fulton home — from birth to third grade, I was an Air Force brat, as
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What is The District and what does it do? The District is a live–work–play neighborhood that sparks the creative, the eclectic and the local. We’re a constantly adapting community of people, with tradition blending harmoniously with technology and the latest trends in fashion, food and the arts. The Downtown CID staffs a full-time executive
Those who visit Columbia for a football weekend probably know there’s a chance that hotel rooms will be sold out (or at least hard to come by), especially when a big SEC opponent comes to Columbia. But what about the rest of the year? Columbia has seen a slight drop in hotel occupancy percentage rates
Events throughout the year keep Columbia’s tourism dollars rolling in. Grabbing a table in a restaurant or a seat at the bar can be tough in downtown Columbia on fall Saturdays. Just ask any lifelong Columbia resident. For six or seven weekends a year, the city is alive with football fanatics, MU alumni, students,
CoMo is building new facilities for youth sports — and hoping to recruit big-dollar tournaments to fill them. Long before Mike Griggs could take panoramas on an iPhone, he carried around a 35mm camera. It was the family camera and was used to document vacations, parties, holidays, sports events and everyday family activities. But
Two hotels brought tax-increment financing to downtown, setting off a complicated debate in Boone County. The view from The Roof, the bar atop The Broadway hotel, is probably the best in downtown Columbia. The hotel is on the eastern edge of the central business district, and The Roof’s balcony has glass walls to minimize visual
