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Art deco restaurant, club ready to open
Former Bob Evans building resembles oceanside spot, features entertainment
Avalon restaurant and nightclub is scheduled to open Friday. Owner Dave Mann said he wanted to bring the feel of Miami's South Beach to his new establishment. -- William J. Booher / For The Star
If you go
. What: Avalon, a 170-seat dining and entertainment venue.
. Where: Along the west side of Allisonville Road, just northwest of the intersection of Allisonville and 82nd Street.
. Grand opening: Friday.
. Features include: Lunch and dinner Tuesdays through Saturdays, with music in nightclub setting those evenings. Sunday brunch, and night owl breakfast served from 1:30 to 3:30 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
. Reservations: Accepted by calling Avalon at (317) 598-0021 but not required.
By William J. Booher
william.booher@xxxxxxxxxxxx
July 28, 2004
The purple, blue and green neon lights provide a new, unique glow nightly near the northwest corner of 82nd Street and Allisonville Road.
Those lights atop a one-story white stucco building highlight the word Avalon, the name of a dining and entertainment venue opening Friday.
Locally owned, Avalon will offer separated family and nightclub dining indoors and two outdoor, heated dining patios (one smoking, one nonsmoking).
A complete interior and exterior remodeling transformed the building that until recently had housed a Bob Evans restaurant into the eye-catching art deco-style eatery.
Avalon's owner, Dave Mann, said that years ago he had considered buying a hotel in Miami's South Beach, where the art deco style of architecture is featured, but his two sons didn't want to move from Indianapolis.
"I couldn't go to South Beach, so I brought it to me," said Mann, who also owns two other Indianapolis-based businesses, D.B. Mann Development Co. and Highline Motors.
"I'm so attracted to South Beach architecture. I love it."
He built his Far-Northside home in the art deco style.
His managing partner in Avalon, Carl Grodin, picked the name for the new restaurant and nightclub.
Grodin, a native of Philadelphia, often visited Avalon, N.J., as a child. That community is a vacation spot with a boardwalk along the Atlantic Ocean.
As a young adult, he enjoyed visiting the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, he said.
About a year and a half ago, he met Mann, and they joined to create the establishment and incorporate the name and architecture.
Grodin, a Carmel resident, said he spent most of his adult life in the nightclub business in Las Vegas and became drawn to the Indianapolis area after visiting a friend.
He decided to move here because "I thought the people were awesome. There's a different atmosphere and pace of life."
Friday, the pace will pick up as Avalon opens its 5,000-square-foot, 170-seat dining establishment.
The blue and purple interior with black upholstered seating will feature live music three nights a week and recorded music with a disc jockey two nights a week.
Sundays, the restaurant will be open for brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will be closed Mondays.
Grodin said lunch and dinner will be served Tuesdays through Fridays, and full menu offerings will be available until last call is given before late night or early morning closings.
Night owl breakfasts -- featuring eggs, biscuits and gravy, French toast and trimmings -- will be from 1:30 to 3:30 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
Both Grodin and Mann stress that the most expensive menu items are steaks at $21.95, and the lunch and dinner menus feature a wide variety of offerings, including seafood, chicken, pasta and salads, plus appetizers.
Grodin said diners can specially order how the entrees are cooked and seasoned.
A large room in the restaurant is partitioned, partly by glass, from the nightclub and is designed to appeal to families in a nonsmoking environment.
From 5 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, Grodin said, a meal for a child accompanying an adult will be free, including beverage.
"It's real exciting," said Kirk Smith, of Lawrence, who is kitchen manager for Avalon. His experience includes eight years at the Skyline Club, a private dining club in Downtown Indianapolis.
In a way, a water-filled tank behind the bar in the nightclub ties in to both oceanside South Beach and oceanside Avalon, N.J. The tank contains a variety of multicolored fish.
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Art deco restaurant, club ready to open
Former Bob Evans building resembles oceanside spot, features entertainment
Avalon restaurant and nightclub is scheduled to open Friday. Owner Dave Mann said he wanted to bring the feel of Miami's South Beach to his new establishment. -- William J. Booher / For The Star
If you go
. What: Avalon, a 170-seat dining and entertainment venue.
. Where: Along the west side of Allisonville Road, just northwest of the intersection of Allisonville and 82nd Street.
. Grand opening: Friday.
. Features include: Lunch and dinner Tuesdays through Saturdays, with music in nightclub setting those evenings. Sunday brunch, and night owl breakfast served from 1:30 to 3:30 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
. Reservations: Accepted by calling Avalon at (317) 598-0021 but not required.
By William J. Booher
william.booher@xxxxxxxxxxxx
July 28, 2004
The purple, blue and green neon lights provide a new, unique glow nightly near the northwest corner of 82nd Street and Allisonville Road.
Those lights atop a one-story white stucco building highlight the word Avalon, the name of a dining and entertainment venue opening Friday.
Locally owned, Avalon will offer separated family and nightclub dining indoors and two outdoor, heated dining patios (one smoking, one nonsmoking).
A complete interior and exterior remodeling transformed the building that until recently had housed a Bob Evans restaurant into the eye-catching art deco-style eatery.
Avalon's owner, Dave Mann, said that years ago he had considered buying a hotel in Miami's South Beach, where the art deco style of architecture is featured, but his two sons didn't want to move from Indianapolis.
"I couldn't go to South Beach, so I brought it to me," said Mann, who also owns two other Indianapolis-based businesses, D.B. Mann Development Co. and Highline Motors.
"I'm so attracted to South Beach architecture. I love it."
He built his Far-Northside home in the art deco style.
His managing partner in Avalon, Carl Grodin, picked the name for the new restaurant and nightclub.
Grodin, a native of Philadelphia, often visited Avalon, N.J., as a child. That community is a vacation spot with a boardwalk along the Atlantic Ocean.
As a young adult, he enjoyed visiting the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, he said.
About a year and a half ago, he met Mann, and they joined to create the establishment and incorporate the name and architecture.
Grodin, a Carmel resident, said he spent most of his adult life in the nightclub business in Las Vegas and became drawn to the Indianapolis area after visiting a friend.
He decided to move here because "I thought the people were awesome. There's a different atmosphere and pace of life."
Friday, the pace will pick up as Avalon opens its 5,000-square-foot, 170-seat dining establishment.
The blue and purple interior with black upholstered seating will feature live music three nights a week and recorded music with a disc jockey two nights a week.
Sundays, the restaurant will be open for brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will be closed Mondays.
Grodin said lunch and dinner will be served Tuesdays through Fridays, and full menu offerings will be available until last call is given before late night or early morning closings.
Night owl breakfasts -- featuring eggs, biscuits and gravy, French toast and trimmings -- will be from 1:30 to 3:30 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
Both Grodin and Mann stress that the most expensive menu items are steaks at $21.95, and the lunch and dinner menus feature a wide variety of offerings, including seafood, chicken, pasta and salads, plus appetizers.
Grodin said diners can specially order how the entrees are cooked and seasoned.
A large room in the restaurant is partitioned, partly by glass, from the nightclub and is designed to appeal to families in a nonsmoking environment.
From 5 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, Grodin said, a meal for a child accompanying an adult will be free, including beverage.
"It's real exciting," said Kirk Smith, of Lawrence, who is kitchen manager for Avalon. His experience includes eight years at the Skyline Club, a private dining club in Downtown Indianapolis.
In a way, a water-filled tank behind the bar in the nightclub ties in to both oceanside South Beach and oceanside Avalon, N.J. The tank contains a variety of multicolored fish.
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