USVI-On-Line

Posted: **Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:37 am**

They are closed. Rent was too high. Hoping to find a new location.

!!!!

Posted: **Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:38 am**

major bummer, isn't it????????

Posted: **Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:42 am**

HUGE bummer. Love that place for good, cheap eats.

Posted: **Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:48 am**

Wow....Very sad

We ate there three or four time last trip. I hope they find a new spot!

Posted: **Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:11 pm**

On their Facebook page they said that they were paying $6,600 a month in rent for their little shack. That's crazy. As they put it, "that's a lot of tacos."

I sure hope they can find another location.

Posted: **Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:30 pm**

Well that's a bummer. We were hoping to try them out this trip.

Posted: **Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:48 pm**

One more thing, the people at Paradise Cafe will be operating it in the mean time as the "Surly Cantina" but it is NOT them. Just their name. No idea what the food will be like.

Posted: **Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:53 pm**

drawing a blank on Paradise Cafe ... help! Anyone?

Posted: **Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:58 pm**

Really? What is their web address? I was just there today for lunch and saw Craig...so I guess I missed something!

Posted: **Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:01 pm**

stjohnjulie wrote:Really? What is their web address? I was just there today for lunch and saw Craig...so I guess I missed something!

If you are on facebook, they have a profile.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= ... 872?ref=nf

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:34 pm**

THey have to be able to do something at least about the name--I cannot beleive that their landlord would take over and use their good name--it's akin to robbery--

I suggest a boycott of surly cantina until things get straightened out (unless the REAL owners are there--then of course partake!)

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:13 pm**

I too am a fan of the REAL 'Surly Cantina'. What I haven't heard from anyone is whether they legally protected the name. I sure hope so, but if not, do they have any legal ( not moral) recourse? Pete?

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:17 pm**

Carolyn wrote:I too am a fan of the REAL 'Surly Cantina'. What I haven't heard from anyone is whether they legally protected the name. I sure hope so, but if not, do they have any legal ( not moral) recourse? Pete?

I don't know how it works in the USVI, but here if they incorporated or registered as a dba they would have prior use rights to the name.

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:14 pm**

I'm all in favor of a "boycott" of sorts at the new "Surly Cantina."

The owners of the REAL Surly Cantina are good folks, just trying to make a decent living. Let's help them find a new location and get back on their feet.