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This city has been blessed with the opening of a number of classy restaurants recently, but Parker House Grill & Wine Bar can also boast of its great downtown location in the historic, newly renovated Lougheed Building.
It takes up two-thirds of the building’s ground floor frontage along 6th Avenue S.W. and offers street views from the lounge and dining room. Owner Ron Salverda of CA Restaurant Enterprises says they will be covered by 1.2-metre plantation screens, which will allow natural lighting in and diners to see out while being hidden from passersby.
The name came about after Salverda had visited the famed Parker House Hotel in Boston, which not only boasts of inventing the Parker House roll but also Boston cream and lemon meringue pies. In New England style, the new Calgary restaurant will feature around 35 per cent seafood on its menus but also plans to specialize in beef, offering AAA original Alberta, Cristal Creek 40-day aged, and Diamond Willow Certified Organic cuts of different textures and flavours.
But executive chef Andrew Keen — who will also continue to supervise the kitchens at The Tribune on Stephen Avenue — says Parker House will certainly present a Boston attitude.
Customers entering off 6th Avenue will be met with a 20-stool, three-side bar with three 50-inch flat screens and a wall-mounted fireplace. Set to open Oct. 22, the restaurant’s lounge walls are covered in strips of warm leather and zebra mahogany while the bar floor sports Brazilian cherry wood.
To the right is a temperature-controlled wine cellar carrying an international list of 1,100 bottles. The walk into the 100-seat dining area is under hand-blown chandeliers created by Mark Gibeau of Strathmore.
Salverda says he spent around $250,000 on tiling, which is also found on the mezzanine level used for dining or cocktails. It has one of several fireplaces and features a glass roof filtering light from the six floors of space separating the Lougheed Building from the Grand Theatre.
Although diners can see into the kitchen through an art deco glass wall — which shelters them from noise — they won’t get to appreciate all of the new kitchen equipment and appliances, such as ultraviolet hoods that eliminate smell or emissions — smoke is zapped into powder.
Neither will male customers get to see the elegant ladies washrooms on the lower level. The washrooms feature vibrantly coloured red tile doors, granite tops and tiles, and makeup counters on either side of a fireplace.
The nearby private dining room has a fireplace, honour-system wet bar, and presentation screen and projector that are free of charge to users.
Parker House was designed by Abugov Kaspar and is a stunning addition to Calgary’s restaurant scene, as well as to Salverda’s group of businesses, including The Tribune, Murrieta’s Bar & Grills in Calgary, Canmore and Edmonton, and his partnership.
contact parkerhouse
Tel: 403.237.9585
131 Sixth Ave SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 0P8
Canada
gm@parkerhouse.ca
www.parkerhouse.ca
