We Hardly Knew You
Posted by Foobooz on May 12th, 2008
Michael Klein reports that Kaizan has bowed out at the Academy House after just 5 months. Originally conceptualized as Zen Setsu back in April with kaiseki, a tasting menu of up to 9 courses, Kaizan was a scaled down version that never got much traction.
Also shutting its doors is Clementine’s Bistro which got better reviews than Kaizan but suffered no better a fate, closing after a year.
Closings [Food and Drinq]





May 12th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
The Kaizan space is more-or-less cursed. Too far off the street to draw serious traffic … has anyone succeeded there other than Marabella’s?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
It’s not cursed, it’s just a bad space. I think some structural changes should be in order but as long as Academy House keeps finding suckers that won’t happen.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:20 am
5 months… damm
May 13th, 2008 at 8:34 am
The space is pretty wierd and being so setback doesn’t help. I think a big sports bar with lots of tv’s could probably do well there. Something like fox and hound, but with decent tv’s and good food. Maybe a center city chickie and petes’s?