Early this summer, we learned that a Capitol Hill institution was making some changes. The Honeyhole introduced a new menu with competition coming to the Melrose Market. What we didn’t know until later is that competition was also making plans to move in right down the street. But as the Other Coast Cafe prepares to open at 721 East Pike, Honeyhole is bringing back a couple of old friends to help it out.
Co-owner Sean London tells CHS that the vegetarian BLT and the Gooch are back on the menu. He also says that for a limited time, Honeyhole is celebrating the return with some deals:
fblat me at the honeyhole, babeh!
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We invite you to come down and enjoy $6 Gooches and Vegi BLT’s and $3.50 draft pints starting Tuesday October 5th and running through Sunday, October 10th.
In the meantime, Other Coast told us in August they were aiming at an October opening in the former home of the Martin-Zambito Fine Art Gallery following a planned $125,000 build-out.
I LOVE THE GOOOOCH!!! haahahahah
But for real, so happy about this. Always loved this place but glad my fav is back!
I’m glad there are new options opening. I’ve grown weary of the unclean feel and darkness of the Honeyhole. The ONLY reason I ever went there was because they were the ONLY sandwich place around. The employees, while courteous, often just have a dirty look about them. When you work in food service, one expects a certain level of personal grooming, and the employees there just don’t seem to recognize that. Despite their recent ‘remodel’ the place still feels dark and dingy and those tables never seem clean. Along with the open bus tub areas, it’s just not a pleasant place to be in. With a new spot 4 doors away and Homegrown so airy and light and clean without all the clutter of Honeyhole, you can guarantee that these new spots will attract business. I think there is a clientele for each, but my business will be spent at one of the other spots, less dingy, less dirty feeling.
It’s back!? I haven’t visited the HH since I saw the gooch disapear from the menu.
I’ll be returning.
No more half-sandwiches. Shittier, smaller bread that cuts the roof of you mouth when toasted. No more potato salad for quite a while now.
Fuck you, Honey Hole. You fucking suck now. Fuck you.
You forgot to mention their food sucking and being a big ripoff now.
Yeah bra, it’s fuckin back ferreals… on small shitty bread. And you have to pay for a whole fucking sandwich even if you only want half. That’s so fucking rad.
Honey Hole now gets none of my money instead of some of it. Certainly not more of it. Oops.
Dear Honeyhole,
Please bring back the dirtburger. I really loved it. Also, ditto on bringing back the half sandwiches and the good bread. Please. I want to like you again.
Sincerely, WW
thank you for bringing the veggie BLT back, thank you.
how much longer until I can get a BIG SMOOTH? :) please?
Hell fucking Yes! Stopping the veg BLT was the most fucking retarded decision the HH could have ever made… in my most humble of opinions… :-)
Glad to hear its back! Can’t wait to go get one after work!
NOW– If only they would keep sweet tea on the menu for sweet tea and vodka…. the the HH could be re-named Heaven!
Cry me a river. Your 3 posts make you sound like a lunatic. It’s a fucking sandwich shop,man!
Glad to see no one is over reacting over a simple sandwich place. If you find Honeyhole to be dirty you should probably just eat at home, except your kitchen is probably dirtier,
Add me to the list of regulars who preferred the old menu. I always got the Chachis Favorite and it tasted much better before they changed the meat and the bread.
When you serve a neighborhood for years, your food becomes comfort food for your regulars. So when you change things up, the pleasure center in my brain says “hey, this isn’t the food I love, this is different!” Bad move Honey Hole.
I don’t know what the Gooch is but I always ordered the meatball sandwich and haven’t been back since it was taken off the menu. Is the Gooch the meatball sandwich? Cuz if it is I will for surely be going back. It was my favorite hangover cure.
Yeah, it’s “just a sandwich place.” Big deal, right? I’m sure it’s a big deal to the people whose livelihood depends on it. Imagine being powerless to prevent the erosion of the business where you work because the owners are apparently idiot business pussies.
Nobody was complaining about Honey Hole being too expensive. People are willing to pay for a superior product. There is absolutely no way that the owners could think these changes are a fundamental improvement for the customer. Over the lifespan of a business, the value provided to the customer should only go up, even in tough economic times. The moment it goes down, you’re fucking yourself. They’re taking the loyal base for granted in the fruitless pursuit of random, cheap assholes who may or may not show up ever again anyway.
1. Bring back the quality ingredients, especially the bread.
2. Bring back more variety to the sides.
3. Do half-sandwiches again. Hot sandwiches don’t reheat well. I don’t expect it to be 50% of the price of a full-sandwich. Whatever the per-order overhead is, so be it. At least it’s an option and I don’t have to waste food. I’m absolutely sure that the left-over ingredients can be re-purposed with a sufficient level of efficiency.
4. Put some R&D into some new sandwiches. People will pay a premium for unique items that are unavailable elsewhere. Look at Po-Dog, they’re doing insanely well. HH used to have the same thing going for it. Random assholes bitch about their prices and don’t come back, but the place is always packed. Do the fucking math.
5. Stop pissing off the wrong people. Play the game, the gentrification of the area isn’t going to stop. Toys in Babeland has an off-map pin on the Pike Pine Triangle map. Maybe if your employees weren’t such fucking assholes, you’d be on there too.