Roeselare Still has one weekend of solid pop and then it is over and out for the M-onkey Bar. Managing director Désiré Houthaeve (32) must be danscafé in the basement of the Zuidpand after 5.5 years close, because the former Grand Bazaar will soon be demolished for a new housing project. Houthaeve is already looking for a new location to a eating place to start. “Every end is a new beginning,” he says.
Désiré Houthaeve could almost whistle to a grand farewell of his M onkey Bar. At the end of last month, he received from the court in Ieper to hear that his danscafé three months near had to after repeated breaches of the smoking ban. “But the final conclusion of the M onkey Bar turned out to be a blessing in disguise,” says Désiré. “I drew a resistance at which the compulsory closure forward. This coming weekend I pull myself forever close the door before the forced shutdown can commence.”
Negotiations
The end of M-onkey Bar is longer to arrive. Though there was 5.5 years ago, when Désiré the danscafé opened, yet no signs of a demolition of the Zuidpand and not at all from the construction of 96 apartments around a central courtyard. “It started with rumors, and later there was suddenly an official write in my bus. Since a year I know that I, the building must leave.” Normally would be the end of M-onkey Bar coinciding with the relocation of the bowling at the beginning of this year, a new building, moved along the Meiboomlaan. “Fortunately, I was able to with the owner some bargaining, Désiré further. “I wanted to be like the end of the exams for the christmas holidays, new year celebrations and the 100 days to be able to celebrate in M-onkey Bar. Eventually I got there even half of the easter holidays. It is really unfortunate that the ending of this chapter. I got here great times to be polite, though it was mentally also not to be underestimated. I had, until recently, not a single tattoo. But for M-onkey Bar I made an exception. All the beautiful memories I will always carry, thanks to the logo of the company that I have on my forearm tattooed. The best part of the M-onkey Bar, I always have the diversity of customers found. The youngest 16 years old, the oldest 74. The most beautiful moment ever was my first 100 days here. I worked not only with 58.5 hours of non-stop, but hung here, an atmosphere where I have goose bumps of got. In addition to the contact with my customers, I will also have my team miss out on who I all that time could rely. My customers indicate that they are lost will walk without M-onkey Bar”.
calmer
But Désiré would Désiré are not if he does not have a solid party wants to build. “From Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 april is the M onkey Bar the M onkey Bar XXL. In two rooms, and I would like a final time a solid lap.” Though it does mean the end of M-onkey Bar not that Désiré from the hospitality industry step in. “I’m still looking for a house in Roeselare where a new case can start. Much clarity is not there yet, but I do wish for a slightly quieter case going to be the one that I have the last few years ran”, decision Houthaeve.
