Tarkus Member Username: Tarkus
Post Number: 585 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 2:42 pm: | |
Looks like the Tubbys at Fort and Washington Blvd. has bitten the dust. |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 5257 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 2:54 pm: | |
bummer - though it always felt so isolated in an ocean of parking lots Hopefully they'll turn up in a better location. |
Melody Member Username: Melody
Post Number: 325 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 3:09 pm: | |
The service wasn't so great there. I didn't like going in there. Still, it stinks that they had to close. The Tubby's in Hamtramck (Holbrook and Conant) seriously has the best service I've ever had at a fast food place. |
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar
Post Number: 1419 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 3:17 pm: | |
And so it continues... Those 30,000 out of towners coming in 6 weeks for the final four sure are in for the show of a lifetime! Having been to 4 final fours in the last 10 years I can tell you that one's experience at the event is not dictated just on your team's performance...people will spend a ton of time trying to learn this city. There will not be much left here for them to enjoy. |
Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott
Post Number: 1785 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 4:14 pm: | |
I doubt that. I expect places will open, rather suddenly, just in time for all those visitors, then close just as abruptly. Strike while the iron is hot. |
Digitalvision Member Username: Digitalvision
Post Number: 1358 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 4:22 pm: | |
That place has been open for 10 years plus - so it's location worked for it - I used to go there when I first started working downtown. |
Bob Member Username: Bob
Post Number: 1239 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 5:21 pm: | |
It seems like there are a lot of things closing down downtown lately. This economy is killing everything. |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 2106 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 5:25 pm: | |
I'm pretty sure a new sandwich place is opening there. There was an ad on Craigslist looking for employees for a sandwich place and the guy said he was in the old tubby's downtown. This was a month ago |
Whithorn11446 Member Username: Whithorn11446
Post Number: 283 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 6:35 pm: | |
Ron Cameron is a partner in the new sub shop that is moving into the Washington Blvd. location. Yes, the same Ron Cameron that was a talk show host on WXYZ and later co-hosted Sports View Today with Bob Page. |
Saintme Member Username: Saintme
Post Number: 328 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 6:37 pm: | |
If you're talking about the Tubby's at Washington Blvd and Lafayette across from the federal courthouse, it has been closed for quite a few months already for "remodeling." I went there about a year ago and got a chicken sub, and when I got back to my office across the street it was soggy and soaking wet for some God forsaken reason. First and last visit. |
Busterwmu Member Username: Busterwmu
Post Number: 501 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 8:26 pm: | |
No!!! I loved this Tubbys! Yes, the location was old and sometimes service slow, but it was a reliable and often convenient place to grab a quick bite in the downtown area, without having to run into the RenCen or Millender, or some place else. Hope the remodeling comes to fruition once things pick back up, there's nothing like eating a "famous" surrounded by the downtown skyline. |
Johnnny5 Member Username: Johnnny5
Post Number: 709 Registered: 06-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 8:45 pm: | |
I'm pretty sure that's the Tubby's that has been for sale for a few years online. If I remember the listing correctly the owner was a doctor who did not have the time to devote to the business. |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 921 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 2:42 am: | |
Hey, Didn't Ron Cameron open up the 24 hr Deli down by the airport a few years back? That place is now the Toarminas Pizza on Merriman. I hope the new place can make a go of it. (Message edited by reddog289 on February 12, 2009) |