Quad Cities Bars

DaVinci’s (in downtown Davenport, next to Boozie’s) has reopened as The Office.  Minor physical changes inside, and the impression they give is that they’re downscaling a little.  Kitchen will at some point be rented out, but currently no food. Los Agaves has opened their fourth location near the corner of 53 rd Ave and Avenue Of The Cities in Moline.  They’ve added a bar and rearranged some walls (with subtle paintings of Tequila logos), but it doesn’t really hide its heritage as a former Denny’s. Those two are numbers 498 and 499 , and now it’s decision time. I’ve got the Platinum Club in Rock Island and Riley’s Roadhouse (the new name of the former River Oaks that was bought by the owner of Jesse’s Saloon) in Cordova that have recently opened, and could become bar # 500 on my list, or I can wait for the opening of Riverside in Bettendorf, which for the last 8 weeks or so I’ve been anticipating would be the one.  Due to electrical issues, their projected opening is now

About a year ago, I bellied up at Shogun to have a Kirin and some sushi.  It was kind of like what I describe as a ‘Rudy’s Syndrome’ desperation visit, when there are no real bars left that would be available, convenient, or prudent to go to.  Well, the original owners took over for the people they sold it to and changed the name to Ichiban, as they thought the brand might have been damaged.  This gave me another opportunity to count it again and pad my stats. For those playing along at home, you would know Edje in Jumer’s Casino has been on my ‘What’s Left’ list (now at 10 ) for some time.  To remedy that, my wife and I finally took a trip out there with a meal at DJ’s Steakhouse also on the agenda.  As it turns out, we knew the bartender at DJ’s, so after dinner we stopped for a drink at the bar.  Love killing two birds with one stone. We also stopped at the Beach Pub in Buffalo, knocking one off my Pre-List list (bars I haven’t been back to since I started tracking this i