WIP Talk: Sundance Day 5: Locals Only

January 19, 2009

Sundance Day 5: Locals Only

• The Uptown Fare restaurant. Note the “Open” sign and the “Locals Only Club” banner. Photograph by Jessica Mosby. •

I will preface this entry by saying the New York Times already blogged about this restaurant and their locals only policy. I, however, am staying (for the second year in a row) in the hotel above the restaurant, and therefore feel that I can also comment on this issue.

Multiple times a day I walk by the Uptown Fare restaurant, and I always peak in and wonder if it is ever open. Well, apparently it never is during the festival - except this year. But unless you have a local ID, the bouncer won’t let you in; exceptions are made for festival volunteers. This might be a terrible business model, and yet it is extremely respectable. Not everyone wants Paris Hilton (who is at Sundance for reasons only known to her) patronizing their establishment.

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