Schoolbred's

Co-owner Robert Morgan said Shoolbred's was designed as "Your Father's Bar, while your father is away on business"¹. It was a Scottish-style pub, spelled Schoolbred's in our listing, with wood-paneled walls, stained-glass windows and a fireplace¹, at an address that had been Jade Mountain, home of a great Chow Mein sign, until 2007¹. The look came from another co-owner, the Tony-winning set designer William Ivey Long, who filled the room with orchids, cherrywood paneling and Louise Bourgeois lithographs².

It closed, fittingly, after service on Father's Day in June 2017, nearly ten years in¹. Morgan said they were handing the space back to a landlord asking "egregious rents"¹, and by that August the storefront was on the market at $18,500 a month³.

Black Emperor applied to open in the space in October 2018³ and shut down in August 2020⁴. A "neighborhood-ish bar concept" opened there in the fall of 2022⁴, and in 2024 a city marshal's notice on the storefront put the landlord back in legal possession of the space⁴.