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Cinco de Mayo…One Last Time
It is with a heavy heart that I get ready to attend Cinco de Mayo for the final time at one of my favorite Naples’ establishments, Meson Ole in its present location, the Oaks Plaza in Naples.
Understand it’s not that Meson Ole is going out of business or anything like that, far from it, but rather the wonderful Spanish style neighborhood plaza where they have called home for many years is to be razed to make way for a new 16,000 square foot Walgreens which in my opinion is needed like a hole in the head.
Meson Ole will in fact be moving the following day to their new home, the former Ditkas, of Mike Ditka fame. Somehow it just won’t be the same as the small, intimate restaurant at the Oaks, where for years Pat and I have enjoyed walking over and sitting at the small bar, sipping (or in some cases wolfing down) margaritas and eating a meal. Now Meson Ole will have a much larger facility, with a huge bar.
It’s all in the name of progress, or so they say, which I will forever fail to understand. But Walgreens and the Naples City Council, in their inimitable wisdom, hammered out a deal that I’m sure was like St. Patrick’s Day, a lot of green.
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