Barnaby’s Beanry, a restaurant that’s dished up cornbread cheeseburgers on Amarillo’s Sixth Avenue alignment of Route 66 for decades, will close in May after its lease expires, reported the Amarillo Globe-News.
The newspaper reported:
Kay Spurlin, owner of the business at 3811 S.W. Sixth Ave. for the past 11 years, gave Barnaby’s regulars plenty of lead time to get in at least one more Big Dan, cornbread cheeseburger or homemade cobbler order. Spurlin posted a sign that she will close the restaurant when her lease on the building ends in mid-May.
The business hasn’t been able to pull itself out of the economic downturn, Spurlin said.
“Lunchtime is where we’re really hurting,” she said. “We’re so sad. I hate to see it go this way. If I was retiring, that would be another thing.”
Barnaby’s opened in 1970. I’m betting it took inspiration for its name from Barney’s Beanery in West Hollywood, Calif., another Route 66 fixture that’s been operating for over 90 years.
Sad to hear of Barnaby’s closing, read it in the paper this AM. Have eaten there twice, food was OK & prices fair……staff was not very friendly but maybe it was because they didn’t know me? Tried to talk to the owner a couple of times about advertising but she was not interested and would not listen to anything I had to say. Lots of competition on 6th Ave and most cater to the biker crowd, several places have live music once or twice a week.