1936 Club, a restaurant located at 300 W. Dickson St., is set to close on Saturday, Aug. 11.
Photo: Dustin Bartholomew, Flyer staff
After 19 years in business, chef Peter Steinhart announced the closing of 1936 Club.
Steinhart, who owns the Dickson Street restaurant, said the final dinners will be served Saturday, Aug. 11.
“I would like to thank all of my friends for their support,” Steinhart wrote on his Facebook wall. “It has been a great run!”
He said Randy McGuffin, formerly of Blackboard Cafe in Bella Vista and Basil’s in Rogers, plans to re-open the restaurant under the name Aquafire.
Steinhart said he and McGuffin share similar cooking styles and philosophies and added that the new restaurant “will be a wonderful addition to Fayetteville.”
Saturday will also mark the closing of Steinhart’s Über Burger Bistro, located inside 1936 Club.
McGuffin hopes to have Aquafire up and running by Aug. 21.
RIP 36 Club. I’m glad an experience restaurateur will take over, but……Aquafire?
36 Club will be missed.
Aquafire?
I liked that place. The new name does sound a bit ridiculous.
I will miss Uber Burger.
Agreed that Aquafire sounds a bit ridiculous. I have to questions how they can open a restaurant with only 10 days between one closing and the next opening. No updates to the restaurant itself?
The new menu has probably already been developed and signage, menus and other branded supplies designed and ordered. Other than that, a coat of paint (aqua?), a few throw pillows….
Don’t forget the fire!
Oh, yes: the fire. How long could it take to jackhammer a firepit into the floor?
A good business model would be to hire Adam Firecat. There’s your fire. YouR welcome.
Also, cider.
Oooh! He could change his name to Aqua Firecat.
Cider was the original American firewater.
Interesting. Another parking casualty?
I think the owners are just retiring.
Are you Dan Coody in disguise? I just don’t get it. $1 per hour for parking is perfectly reasonable. I just can’t fathom why people think that can close down a business, especially when another one is opening up at the same spot within 2 weeks. The only thing that comes to my mind by way of an explanation is politics.
Get your conspiracies straight. I’m supposed to be Dan Coody in disguise. At least so I have read on the Flyer.
But glutenfree, I met you at Hog Haus once. If you are Dan Coody then you should share your disguise technology with the world. Please keep the jobs in Fayetteville when you commercialize.
Maybe you are Glutenfree disguised as Dickson dude disguised as Dan Coody – the Peter Sellers of Fayetteville
Oh no. I forgot about that. Yes we did meet. And talked about the Flyer. But that was a while back. Good memory.
I bet the new owner will get one of the BIG A & P Commish positionings!!!
5 star food and service bet all the way from the heart good luck RANDY you will rock cooker
aquafire??? what does that mean/represent?
“Aquafire” sounds like the name of a bad cologne.
Or a cheap vodka.
It makes me think of Billy Bob’s Rockafire Explosion…
I will miss the 1936 club. I will always remember the good times we had there!
The 36 Club inspired the name for my show Goodnight Jazz on KUAF. In their window used to be a neon sign that read “Good Food, Live Jazz” but food and live had burned out leaving only “Good Jazz” lit. Thanks for the good food Peter and the inspiration too :)
Daniel Estes
My late grandfather wore Aquafire (by Menen I believe). Old broads dug it. I always thought he wore it to disguise the strong smell of cheap whiskey on his breath.
I wish they would just keep the same name…..36 club has been around forever!
Stopped going there due to servers being rude.
Yes, we will never forget the time that our waitperson spun on his heels in mid-sentence to engage Ms. Janine whatshername–former symphony director and her table of notables…
we are just not famous enough in f’ville.
36 Club was also one of old man Tyson’s favorite haunts…
sigh.
I worked as the hostess at the 36 Club all through college and I can honestly say that to this day it was the best job I’ve ever had (well except for the smoke, the cigarette smoke was awful. I’m so thankful that restaurants are now smoke-free). Peter and Nancy were great employers and really took good care of their staff. Sooo many good times there! I wish them the best in their next endeavor and I’m looking forward to seeing what Aquafire will offer.
Reid was the greatest bartender ever. Loved the food, the location and just the 1936 of it all. I have many, many fond memories of the place including the excellent wait staff.
I hope the owner reads the Flyer bc AquaFire may be the worst name ever
I first acquired a taste for single malt at 36 club. Something about that atmosphere just made the scotch taste good for the first time.
Just came from customer appreciation party at 36 club and personally met the new owners. First, the name means Fire and Water which are the two elements you need to cook. They are excited about their new restaurant and look forward to serving Dickson Street. I think we should give them a chance sounds like the cooking and service is going to be awesome! Welcome AquaFire to Dickson street. I’m going to give you a chance.
I also wish them every success, but do they plan to blanch, boil and steam every menu item? What about the deep fryer?
I guess Lardfire didn’t do well with the focus groups.
DF, are you taking some kind of online comedy course? Your last several comments have had me giggling.
Thank you, and no– I’m just being my other charming self. I am gratified that you have derived some amusement from my last several posts, as I certainly have no intention of being universally annoying.
Please join me in opening my new restaurant, Lardfire, where our specialty is deep frying then grilling all the things.
If I ever have a VW Microbus that runs on biodiesel, I will call it “Lardfire”.
Wasn’t that a Michael Murphey song called this? A pony she named Lardfire?
Mmmm… pony….
I’m with suzzie, I’m looking forward to Aquafire! I don’t know their Bella Vista place, but Basil’s is excellent, so I’m hopeful that Aquafire will be a wonderful addition to Dickson!
why are people so damn ignorant??
I have no idea what you’re referring to.
This is a statement of the human condition apropos of nothing. Given the universal and unavoidable power of this truth, it was bound to show-up somewhere. This finding is the result of the experiments being performed at CERN/Large Hadron Collider. I am not surprised that the revelation was first published in a regional local interest website. Dr. Chefvinny is nothing if not unconventional.
I think this statement is very Malthusian.
Lol @ DF
If everybody is ignorant, then nobody is ignorant.
Excuse me, damn ignorant.
I’ll give them a try for sure. I hope they’re okay with me calling it “Fire and Water” as the other makes think of a show on cartoon network.