The Packers and team concessionaire Delaware North Sportservice yesterday announced that the new Lambeau Field Atrium restaurant named 1919 Kitchen & Tap, which "was inspired by the community and the team’s history and is a tribute to the year the team was organized," should "open by the end of July, in time for the start of training camp," according to Andrew LaCombe of Green Bay-based WLUK-Fox. Construction "continues on 1919’s new space on the Atrium’s first floor." The restaurant, which replaces Curly’s Pub, "is being built where the Packers Pro Shop used to be on the first floor." The Packers and DNS said that the new restaurant will be "industrial with warm and rustic finishes." Copper beer lines will lead to 80 taps, and the kitchen "will have an open feel." The exact food lineup "is still being finalized" (FOX11ONLINE.com, 4/28). In Green Bay, Richard Ryman in a front-page piece reports 1919 Kitchen & Tap "is designed with the other 350 days in mind," as the new restaurant "surely will be full on 10 or so ... Packers game days every season, but the idea is that it will draw visitors on its own instead of just serving visitors drawn to the stadium." Artist renderings "show an establishment with a decided factory-style look: all wood, brick and polished metal, including 80 copper pipes feeding 40 beers to taps." Packers Dir of Stadium Services Jennifer Ark said that touches of team history "will be sprinkled throughout the establishment and TVs will be abundant, but it won't be a typical sports bar." Touches "will be subtle." For example, tabletops "will include X's-and-O's diagrams of famous Packers offenses, including the Notre Dame box, the power sweep and the West Coast." Capacity indoors will be about 250 (GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE, 4/29).
