Smells Like Yukon Flog

Once again, Smells Like Yukon’s powers of prediction have proven all too accurate. Last season’s segment, “The Barstools of Yutopia,” recorded on location in the then-brand new Yutopia Bar and Grill in downtown Whitehorse, ended with the warning that “utopias are a lot like bars at 4th and Main: they don’t last forever….”

Well, Yutopia lasted little over a year. Now it has been replaced by Kathy’s Restaurant & Asian Food. We’re still trying to figure out the name–Is the Asian food served in the alley, as opposed to the restaurant? Do you have to mail-order the moo goo gai pan? Why not tack on “& Beverages” to the name, just for good measure? As Smells Like Yukon grapples with these timeless questions, we understandably mourn the loss of the previous establishment and especially its name, which did, after all, inspire six minutes and 43 seconds of speculation about how to make the Yukon a better place to live. Only time will tell what Kathy’s Restaurant & Asian Food is going to inspire.

Fortuitously, when Jesse and Mark ate lunch at Lizard’s yesterday, the waitress explained that the martini bar that is scheduled to open in the space between Lizard’s and Kathy’s would not just be high-end, but “super high-end.” Somehow, this assertion seems ripe with satirical possibility.

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