Just drove by on Meridian...Looks like Shorty Small's is going in

For a place that was rarely busy it lasted a long time...Was a pretty solid restaurant even though it was rarely on our list when going out

i liked that place... went pretty regularly around ten years ago then just sort of stopped. went around a year ago and it was pretty good and then went a couple of months ago and it was pretty bad... as if everybody had just given up. guess that makes sense now.

kinda hard to get excited about shorty smalls, though. i remember missing hungry peddler when shorty smalls replaced them over on reno around 20 years ago.

-M

Your memory seems to have a valid connection with past and present reality, mmm.

Personally, i think that Der Dutchman, that short-lived Mall Based "Cajun" spot somewhere over on the near NWSide, and Shorty Smalls were at least equal to the dining experience at The Hungry Peddler. (I grew up around "The Hungry Farmer" . . . out on East Arapahoe)

Kona Ranch? Meh . . .
Bahama Breeze? Oh Yeah . . .
Cheesburger in Paradise?: Tucker's Onion Burgers on The NE23.

Take it that Shorty Smalls is relocating from Meridian/Reno then?

Take it that Shorty Smalls is relocating from Meridian/Reno then?

We drove past it tonight, and there was a sign stating that they were moving.

That would be the logical assumption and the way that I interpreted the announcement/observation.

Yet . . . In the context of The Restaurant Business--with everyone apparently looking for The Next Big Thing--who knows?

Frankly . . . I not sure if it was Kona Ranch or Shorty Small's that was a frequent stop ten years ago.

Heck . . . I only just discovered--mostly by accident--KhaZana in Mayfair and it was darn good even on an off night.

The Panera next to Kona Ranch is closing this week. Two weeks later they will reopen on the east-west road north of I 40 and south of Reno between Mac Arthur and Rockwell. There goes the easy access!

I think Shorty's will likely fail because every other location of theirs has crashed and burned. I think the existing location is what kept them going.

Man, "Hungry Peddler" reminds me from when I was a kid of the one and ONLY time I ever remember anyone from my family eating there - my folks had gone to some work-related dinner, and they BOTH came down with some nasty round of food poisoning and were sick as dogs for every bit of 24 hours+. It was a little scary for me, because I was just a kid, no brothers/sisters, and *both* mom and dad were down sick...

Needless to say, that was the first and last time we spoke of Hungry Peddler in our house.

I think Shorty's will likely fail because every other location of theirs has crashed and burned. I think the existing location is what kept them going.That was my first thought when I read about the move. Shorty's is moving their only surviving store that's in well known building on a busy corner? What are they thinking? Unless someone has plans for that corner and they were going to have to move anyway I don't see the logic.

Went to Kona a long time ago when they first opened, and when I saw that they had charged me something like $2.50 for a cold dinner roll, that was all I needed to know. I was amazed they lasted this long.

Went to Kona a long time ago when they first opened, and when I saw that they had charged me something like $2.50 for a cold dinner roll, that was all I needed to know. I was amazed they lasted this long.

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Went to Kona a long time ago when they first opened, and when I saw that they had charged me something like $2.50 for a cold dinner roll, that was all I needed to know. I was amazed they lasted this long.

I've ate there 3--4 times per month for the last 2 years and have never been charged separately for a dinner roll, always found the rolls to be hot, fresh and love the coconut butter.

I've ate there 3--4 times per month for the last 2 years and have never been charged separately for a dinner roll, always found the rolls to be hot, fresh and love the coconut butter.

It was a long time ago, so perhaps they learned from their mistake, but the rest of the meal was sufficiently uninspiring that I was not enamored or interested enough to go back and find out.

I've ate there 3--4 times per month for the last 2 years and have never been charged separately for a dinner roll, always found the rolls to be hot, fresh and love the coconut butter.

Bread and butter were excellent and probably the best things at the restaurant...Probably why they finally went under

Heard that the owners of Kona Ranch (who also own Rudy's BBQ) are going to open a Rudy's somewhere on Memorial Road. Don't know where but I hope it's not close to Penn or I'll never go.

Creed Ford's restaurant group owned Kona Ranch as well as Rudy's and Johnny Carinos. He has 2 separate franchise groups who operate Rudy's and Carinos in OK. I would be surprised is Rudy's opened at Penn and Memorial. They need a huge footprint for fuel, etc...

Was in the (former) Shorty Smalls area tonight and the place was deserted...sign covered with a "We're Moving" to the former Kona Ranch location...didn't venture down that way to see...

I hope that too many pins don't fall off that Visitor's Map, that adorned the lobby, during the move.
(And are they moving all the corrugated tin and everything?)

I was in that area today. Knowing the history of the Kona's building (somewhat of a death location), and how sweet the Shorty Small's corner is, gotta wonder what this says about the status of Shorty Small's.

Does SS own the building/property? Based on other places that have been forced to close/relocate, they may have had a long term lease and it was ending. Couldn't afford/didn't want to pay whatever the increased rent would be so are relocating???

... ... Couldn't afford/didn't want to pay whatever the increased rent would be so are relocating???

Seen it happen that way in Norman a few times (dagnabit.) No clue if that's the case for SS.

Knowing the history of the Kona's building...

hmmm... i thought that building was constructed for kona ranch. what was there previously? -M

I guess what I mean is Kona sounds like it was less than successful over its lifetime based on what I've read in this thread.

ahh... gotcha. -M