Those smart devils at the Irish Heather have brought us yet another Gastown venue having taken over the Brickyard and opening up the new Limerick Junction earlier this month. I haven’t been by yet, but the concept is sports (the rugby and cricket kind), dance floor, patio, and cigar room bar type thing.

Even closer to home (so crawling distance away from the LKC) in Blood Alley, those crazy Heather folks are opening a restaurant just for me. Well, not really, but as it’s a wine bar and tasting room that will serve cured meats and cheeses, they might as well call me Norm. Hello new home away from home. Alley 45 (tentative name) is expected to open this spring.