Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Earls Restaurant




Beginning with one Leroy Earl Fuller, there’s been an Earl in the family biz since 1954. But the real Earls got started by Leroy ‘Bus’ Earl Fuller and son Stanley Earl Fuller in 1982. Armed with a box of wooden parrots, some green and white paint, and a few insanely delicious recipe concepts, they launched the spirit of West Coast Casual—and created a warm, welcoming place where everything good in life tastes even better. Infusing the menu with a flirtatious sense of fun, they planted the seeds for a truly unique kitchen and bar experience.

Since Earls’ humble beginnings as that laid-back beer and burger joint, both the atmosphere and menus have evolved. We’ve created a comfortable yet upscale atmosphere where guests are equally welcome to dress up or wind down. We take inspiration from the world’s most popular cuisines and give them a spin that’s authentically Earls. Over two decades later, we have more than fifty restaurants across Canada and in the United States.

It's been a long time since I walked within this restaurant within the city and what was once a large bakery which made bread came to be that of a restaurant that has changed and expanded much more than I would have ever thought.

At the top of the building it says,"Don't say Bread, say Earls". Fuller obviously had something and within these time where many come and go it has literally when Fuller made the change and three decades ain't bad.



40 comments:

  1. We have a Earl's Restaurant here but it is nothing like this.

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  2. Rodney it was the first time I had been in it for a long time Fuller himself started out as a baker.

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  3. Now no one really knows it but this is the latest picture of me, so things have changed a tad but hey age is what it is. :)

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  4. hmmm, You really seem to be aging well.

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  5. How cool that they let you go back into the kitchen.

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  6. No tess it was not open yet but years ago me and a little "rat pack" that we had did.

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  7. Yep...:) Mind you I had to wear a disguise.
    Mind you the one lad there seemingly wasnt buy it.

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  8. Nope, ain't buying that one Jack. LOL

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  9. Looks like it's full of ambiance.

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  10. There were five of us ripe out of university and we as kids back then thought were were the next rat pack in our own minds of course.
    Thursday through too Saturday from 10pm to 2am we would head to this place and we always had out seats right within the back corner of the bar.
    Girls were not commodities, yet they were the fancy of it all. Ironically so often we would walk into this place and it was one where the "gems" were those that were dressed for the occassion. We used to call ourselves, "the happy police". As we found that so often when we walked into places there would be just straight faces as everyone seemed alone. One line of Frank's was to go up to a group of ladies citing and say, " if you don't smile I am going to have to give you a ticket!". One of the group of ladies would ask what is the happy police?" he would respond in saying that if you know whom the "Dream Police are, which was one album of Cheap Tricks'. Thereafter, the ladies couldnt help but laugh and before you would know it when it came an hour before closing so often this Rat Pack of ours would leave with around ten people and we would go for pizza and enjoy the times. Hence, we were not out on the run to pick up ladies - we were out to have fun and did we - oh yeah. So this place called Earls, which holds easily 600 people - was a place that four young gents had a great time of there lives and as for the ones that played that macho "thang". Well, not too many came close to those whom respected yet had fun with many ladies. That was then but fond recollections and ironically the person whom owned the place still did mind he obviously did very well.

    Ironically Earl Fuller was a man that nearly went backrupt and then within the 80's he made a switch to this Earls concept and he survived thirty decades while most of his competition never did.

    (I thought I would add this as I wished too last night)

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  11. Well I never told you how cold it was this winter and -30 can get to ya. Yet it's whats on the inside of which counts. :)

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  12. Looks a bit like an old European prison.

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  13. Greta stairway. Earls is not without local color.

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  14. That's quite a restaurant brewery set-up here Jack. Looks like a very interesting place.

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  15. Looks like he missed out on a yearly raise... or two ;-)

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  16. Ironically Doug that was the wine cellar.

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  17. The brew there own it had expanded up the the second level as way way back it didnt have all this and the person that owns the franchise
    well he did very well.

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  18. Bottles of wines on the right side. Some kind of a mystery on the first glance.

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  19. The stone finished am interested in. Rustic appeal. lovely.

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  20. The flesh against the hard rocks. There's some kind of a symbolism out there. for me. Beautiful.

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  21. The spiral stairs is just interesting. Cool shot

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  22. And so this how they go about it. Nice to see it.

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  23. Is it there where they mixed up the wine or it is where they put the wine first and let it aged a bit then bottled it ... cool.

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  24. A some kind of a look that say ... why you are there, Jack :)

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  25. Everyone needs one of these in their house, kidding :)

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