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Daily Post Restaurant & Bar Opens in Vacant Space: New Business

Ivid Bahoura operated a nightclub in Detroit for 10 years before closing it earlier this year for new opportunities in Novi.

After his business in downtown Detroit dropped off due to competition by casinos that played by different rules, operating the Daily Post Restaurant & Bar in Novi is like filling his lungs with fresh air for Ivid Bahoura.

Bahoura of Commerce opened the restaurant and bar in the building that formerly housed three bar/restaurants – The Post Bar, The Post and Epic – in March, The Observer & Eccentric reports.

“It kind of fell in our lap,” he said of the building on on Grand River Avenue in the Main Street area. “Our broker had the space, and I know the Novi area pretty well. The food business out here is great. Plus, the greenhouse space is great. There’s nothing like it anywhere.”

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The business came with a greenhouse and patio. He retained part of the old name, The Post, but that’s where the similarities end. The menu is new with upscale but affordable bar food with a fine-dining presentation, and so is the decor, which follows a newspaper theme and has authentic sports memorabilia, photos and jerseys put together by The Art of Custom Framing in Clawson.

For the past decade, Bahoura had operated the Elysium nightclub in downtown Detroit. Business had fallen off due to competition from casinos, which offered food and hotels as well as gambling. Casinos also are exempt from the law that eliminated smoking, which Bahoura said put local businesses in Detroit and the suburbs at “a huge disadvantage.”

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He closed the nightclub earlier this year.


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