Dash Supper Club on Troost? Well, it’s not happening in the Cleaver II Blvd Shoppes
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Nine months ago, a story in the “paper of record” announced, with some fanfare, that local businesswoman and singer Darcus Gates — the daughter-in-law of barbecue legend Ollie Gates — was taking one of the retail spaces in the new Gates shopping development at 47th Street and Troost, the Cleaver II Blvd Shoppes, and opening a 180-seat supper club.
That story reported a June opening for the club, to be called Dash. With June having long since come and gone with nary a dash, dot or period, The Pitch checked with Arzelia Gates, the director of community relations for Gates Bar-B-Q, to see what’s going on with the supper club.
“The supper club will not be opening in the Cleaver II Blvd Shoppes,” Arzelia Gates tells us. “But it might be opening somewhere.”
A phone call to Darcus Gates confirmed that she has changed her plans: A 180-seat venue, she says, “is a little too small for what I want to do, which is bring in national acts. We’ll have local performers, too, but when we have nationally known names, we’ll need a bigger venue.”
Darcus Gates says she’s negotiating for a space in a different part of town but is staying true to her original plan for “a supper club serving good food with excellent service and musical and comedy performers.”
“It’s going to be an upscale club,” she says. “Men will be required to wear jackets.”
The new announced date for Dash, she added, is mid-2016.
