The opening of the newest Keg restaurant – at the old Hy’s Mansion and Macaroni Grill castle on Davie Street – is closer to being a reality, Keg owner David Aisenstat told Business in Vancouver on Friday.
Aisenstat first told BIV of his plans to open a restaurant in the now-vacant location in March 2009. (See “David Aisenstat profile - Hy Points” – issue 1013; March 24-30, 2009.)
Opening a restaurant in that location will be nostalgic for Aisenstat because his father, Hy Aisenstat, admired the old castle site for 20 years before finally opening Hy’s Mansion at the location in 1979.
“We’re just about to apply for permits. We’ll do that before the end of February. I don’t think anyone is going to mind what we’re doing, so we should be under construction there sometime in the next couple months and open next fall.”