The Rendezvous

■ Voulez-vous Rendezvous? Looks like a renaissance for that corner of Niagara and Pennsylvania: According to filings in Common Council this week, an individual has applied for a liquor license for the Rendezvous, which has been dark for nearly a year and moribund even longer. A recommendation: Replenish the stock of glassware; the last operators served everything in plastic cups.

■ One bar opens, another closes: Two weeks ago the Common Council agreed to rescind the restaurant dance license it had only recently approved for Blu Mirage, the swanky cocktail lounge in the Sidway Building. Apparently the owner decided to throw a “teen night” party in his nightclub back in January, advertising for which reached the eyes of Commissioner Rich Tobe of the Department of Economic Development, Permits and Inspection Services. Tobe issued a hand-delivered cease-and-desist order to the owner of the club, which did not have the necessary permits to host the event.

The owner ignored the letter, however, and advertised an all-ages party anyhow for Saturday, February 16. This might have come off, except that on Friday, February 10, two Buffalo policemen responded to a reports of a fight at Blu Mirage—a fight that soon devolved into a club-wide brawl. It took 30 cops to break up the melee, and one cop was bloodied in the effort. That Monday, Tobe asked Mayor Byron Brown to veto the Common Council’s approval of the restaurant dance license, which Brown was happy to do. Ellicott District Councilmember Brian Davis, who had recommended the granting of the license to begin with, joined in asking for the license to be rescinded.

■ One bar closes, another gets longer: Mark Goldman informed the city last week that he intends to add eight more feet of bar to a back room at Allen Street Hardware.