Tuesday, April 3, 2012

World of Beer Coming to Belmar

World of Beer, a Florida-based chain of bars, opens this summer in Belmar, according to the happenings page of Continuum's Belmar website.

No other information is provided, but a quick look through Google Image gives the basic outline: 50 beers on tap, flat panel TVs, live music, female bartenders in sleeveless tank tops. Plus a long row of refrigerator cases lined with bottled beer. It's unclear if WOB (the abbreviation seems unavoidable) serves food or not.

Either way, it seems solidly middle-brow, and will probably do well in Belmar, creating middle-brow synergy with The Rock pizzeria and Baker Street Pub & Grill.

Continuum hasn't made public which location WOB is slated for, but other WOBs appear to be in the 3000 sq. foot range, so that doesn't leave too many options, unless there are plans for new construction. Perhaps the space under Whole Foods and across the corner from The Rock and Nordstrom Rack? Or the spot between Ohio Broadcasting and Baker Street?

3 comments:

  1. I wonder if this will go in to the Las Margaritas space. They took the sign down and started clearing it out today.

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  2. Las Margaritas is closed? Wow, that sure happened fast. They seemed to do a decent business, but that's probably not enough. It seems like there are lots of restaurant in town that have a line out the door, but Las Margaritas has never been one of them.

    World of Beer is apparently going in on the plaza, between the Ohio Center for Broadcasting and Baker Street.

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  3. You've got to have food!!! You don't wanta bunch of drunk drivers.

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