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Coffee Pot closed
By: Patrick Lejtenyi, Mirror (CN QU), 01-20-05

To little fanfare, the Coffee Pot, the Latin Quarter pot-smoking lounge and restaurant, closed its doors last month. After only a few weeks of doing business, proprietor David McKenzie, who also runs the Duchess of Amsterdam head shop on St-Marc, said business was so slow that he had no choice but to shut its doors just before Christmas. "It's really too bad," he says. "It's really disappointing. There was all this talk about it, but people just didn't come."

McKenzie speculates that perhaps would-be patrons were afraid of being arrested by police, a fear he says was misplaced. "There were a couple of minor incidents at the beginning, just stupid little problems, but all in all it was really good," he says. "The cops were cool, we never got raided. They'd come in and do a walk-around, but they do that in bars now too."

McKenzie says he might try to open up another place, but on a much smaller level. He wouldn't provide figures, but he said the Coffee Pot was costing him "enough to not keep it open."