The Meat & No Wine Co. opening soon?
A friend of mine sent me this picture of The Meat Company from the outside at 360 Mall. Looks like they’re nearly done with the interior which means they should be opening soon.
Thanks B!
Update: A reader posted a comment that it will be opening this Sunday but I don’t have any official confirmation yet.
Nov 25, 2009
Wow, it really looks good.
meat and NO wine :(
looks nice, I’m hungry now.. yabeela :P
MmmMmm Riblets!
Mathai, u said it…
Funny, I was just there today and spent about ten minutes ogling the lights and overall design from outside Lorenzo.
Perhaps they’ll open up around the next few days/end of the month?
the will open in Sunday,,,
Places like the meat company make the most part of their profit margin on alcoholic beverages, as opposed to food itself.
In order to make up for no selling wines etc, they will charge much more for their food (especially if you add super expensive rent expense).
Don’t forget soon they will be forced to just push you a cheap piece of meat that they will tell you that it’s south African oin order to yet make up for less customers coming in at the end of the Kuwaiti restaurant “hebba”.
And no pork wtf.
Just add to Sfsa78 post:
The reason why the margins for restaurants are so low is due to staff wages. That should not be an issue in Kuwait. So I doubt that they will be charging much more than they do overseas… but again.. this is Kuwait.
Looks like the gardens of Aden, Yemen. The lighting looks good so far.
It’ll soon turn into the Meet & Whine Company…
it is well known that most of the sit-in, dinining restaurants from the west make more margins on drinks (even on non-alcoholic drinks.)…..so that such a place is opening in Kuwait is not linked to how they make their money (lower margin foods vs. higher margin drinks) in S. Africa or elsewhere but rather that they find kuwait to be an attractive market w/ a strong meat culture………just notice how many bruger places we have here!
so, am happy the are here and very happy that they are not selling the alcohol…
Not only meat company, but also ”Posh Cafe” will open tomorrow
i tried it in UAE couple of times and was disappointed for the price i paid,, the steak suppose to be better
360 is a disaster. Was there last week, nothing much has changed since it first opened.
@ Abdullah C
some ppl might even argue that it is the way it is because the Monopoly of Mr. Mohammad AlShaya3 is not being represented. Forgetting that at least someone someone/somebody/some entity MUST put up a fight against this hijacking of Kuwait’s shopping centers by his stores (do they pay market rent there at the Shavenues?!)
I believe all the shops at 360 are spoken for already, the problem is the majority of them haven’t opened yet and that has nothing to do with the lack of alshaya stores.
@ B_G_T_R
Doesn’t AlSaha3 own avenues? If so, then is simply vertical integration my friend :)
360 could not be compared to the Avenues in terms of size and offerings. I agree that Alshaya have hijacked the retail market and almost monopolized it. The Avenues or any other mall should not be majority owned by any retail group because it a major conflict of interest. Tenants pay high rents because Alshaya pays low rents, very simple. I wonder how they will manage to secure enough tenants for phase 3 with this scheme in a recession.
@Aziz:
thats true if he owned both 100% or in similar proportions (50-50 or 70-70 etc) but as it is today 60% (or something) of Mabani (owner of Avenues) and 100% of the stores and them not paying real rent prices there and getting first pick in terms of locations just do to the Arab-usual abuse of boards (AlMabani’s board) Then I suppose its the classic 100% ownership of private company combined w/ a partial yet influential ownership of a public company and where the transactions are not done at “arms’ length”………..But I think its the norm in our rotten business culture……after all the previous owners of Gulf Bank were doing that even since they got their hands on the bank!!!
Mark,
you are invited tomorrow at 8:00 PM along with Nat. there will be table under your name.
thanks
oh, thats cool. Will be there.
Mark – HaaMooR could be pranking you :)
Why anyone would bring a franchise called The Meat & Wine Co. here is simply impossible to understand… WTF?! Ran out of franchises???
This is worse than the idiots who brought Trader Vics!