Didn’t realize the Depot St. people had another restaurant. My grandparents live nearby and it’s always packed when I drive by it.

It’s not only the Ball Park… lots of reasons, including high cost of food service items, and inflation, have eroded the razor thin profit margins. Also, most places can’t find staff and owners are working 65-80 hour weeks to make up for it.

Parking is obviously an issue… but the ball park is only open for home games 70-something days a year.

No.

Union Station Parking Garage is literally right there. It was easy to park there on a Friday night.

Well I can say the manager there sucked out loud. He was absolutely terrible to customers. If your going to rely on grubhub to survive it might be in your best interest to give customers a call when a menu item is out of stock instead of just sending a partial order

This and Smokestack closing? That's fucking rough.

Worcester was doing so well for a while too. It's a shame they put a stadium in, because from my understanding it's short term profits for some, then a down turn for everyone once the stadium isn't novel anymore.

Redemption Rock brewing is the only place in worcester that I have seen do bathrooms right. Just a line of powder rooms.

"that stupid fucking ballpark" is how I always reference it in conversation.

Never even heard of it...

I always found Ralph’s diner to be accepting of everyone. Very much a counter culture type place. I used to go multiple times per week but I moved out of town a few years ago and haven’t been in a while.

If it's not on shrewsbury st, the city doesnt care.

Poor management had this place on this path for a while now. The owner has a track record for that. They just decided to blame the ballpark after others did, as an out strategy.

The Banner is closing too?

My band used to play there. The patrons were generally nice enough. When we were outside smoking butts we were approached many times by drug dealers. We stupidly lost 40 bucks trying to buy some green off one of them. Parking sucks and it’s a pretty rough neighborhood. It’s a good venue to see a local metal band.

Hilton Garden Inn. Literally next door. Clean comfortable rooms, complimentary bottled water at reception (used to be big jars of fresh spring water with cucumbers and citrus in it, but due to COVID they've discontinued that afaik), and surprisingly cozy beds. Super super clean. Staff were nice and very accommodating when I had to change our payment method last minute.

Depot St is awesome

I was there yesterday and it was busy...it must be the ballpark during games because there is no parking.

Can't imagine anyone warned Worcester that it would be a problem....

I got blasted for saying it before, but eating up parking spaces with bumped out sidewalks has people going elsewhere. One of the restaurants even blamed parking in an article. 🤦‍♂️

They were closed Mon-Wed. Open most Thursday, Friday & Saturday evenings, then Sunday brunch. They didn’t open today or this past Thursday. A lot of places in Kelley Square have (what I think of as) odd days/hours. I’m always checking a place’s social media to see if they’re open before I go out.

There used to be a lot of local shows there 10+ years ago, not sure if there are now. Went there a lot growing up. Yeah, rough neighborhood and we definitely got into our share of mischief in the neighborhood growing up, but I always enjoyed the place and never really felt too sketched out

No doubt. One of the bartenders from smokestack said that patrons would come down on game days and just eat in the park as it opened 2 hrs early before games.

Lotta chatter that the park is pulling business away.

I love me some Nick’s (or Vincent’s). Ralph’s is really the only bar I go to nowadays though. There isn’t much else in Worcester that has a cool vibe. We’re overdue for a cool mid sized venue

I haven't heard about wading to ramshorn island! It's that shallow?

This is very sad.