Ariana Madix and Katie Maloney‘s sandwich store, Something About Her, is once more dealing with delays.
Months after the West Hollywood restaurant was speculated to open its doorways to patrons, the Vanderpump Rules stars have been hit with allow points which have made it unimaginable to open. Get the newest replace on their soon-to-be-hotspot as Ariana discusses her new life in boyfriend Daniel Wai‘s hometown of New York City.
Along with a sequence of photographs of the signal and entrance patio taken down at Something About Her, a brand new report has confirmed that the opening date has been “put on hold” on account of “ongoing health department issues.”
“The front patio at that location was there for years (when it was Hedley’s Restaurant), and it was there without proper city permits,” a supply informed The U.S. Sun on January 13. “After the remodeling, Katie and Ariana learned that permit laws had changed and they had to take down their sign and break down the entire front patio.”
While Something About Her beforehand featured a yellow and white awning, together with a small patio, that has all been torn down as Ariana, 38, and Katie, 36, try to attain a brand new allow with the City of West Hollywood that permits them to rebuild a unique cover and outside eating space.
Before and After of Ariana and Katie’s Something About Her Sandwich Shop. Credit: The Sun
“The drawings that were submitted for the new outdoor dining space don’t look the same as it was before,” the supply shared. “They’re not giving up hope since the outdoor dining area would be beneficial to the business and will allow for more seating space.”
In addition to the outside of their venue, Ariana and Katie are additionally having to redo their flooring.
“The health department said that the floor is not for open food use, so the entire flooring has to be pulled out. Well if you pull out that flooring, you have to pull out all the furnishings, you have to pull out the refrigeration too because that wasn’t put in correctly,” the insider continued. “So now, all of a sudden, after spending $300,000 on a build-out, they have to redo everything, is what apparently is going on.”
“It’s a “cluster f*ck. It’s a lot of back and forth with city officials … Taking over this location has been bad luck from the beginning. It’s like it’s been jinxed because it’s always something new,” the supply added.
Ariana and Katie’s liquor license for Something About Her remains to be pending as effectively.
As for Ariana’s current transfer to New York City, the place she’s set to start her run as Roxie Hart in Chicago later this month, the Pump Rules forged member mentioned that whereas so much remains to be the identical, some issues are a lot totally different than she recollects from her years residing there some time in the past.
“Some parts of it are like riding a bike… taking the train and walking everywhere things like that, I was like, ‘Okay, I remember how to do this’ and then other things are just it’s a different city than when I lived here before cause I was here pre-Instagram, pre-iPhone, pre-social media… It is very different in a lot of ways but I think that that’s just you know the world at large,” she shared throughout a January 9 interview with Extra TV.
Vanderpump Rules season 11 premieres on Tuesday, January 30, at 8/7c on Bravo.
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