Although the bar will reopen within six months, students worry about the potential impact on their weekend routine and the loss of Grafton Street as an option for senior bar this spring.
"With the [Crimson Sports] Grille on its way out, there won't be anything left in the Square," says Libby Shani '02. "What's going to be the next hot spot?"
She considered, and promptly vetoed, Daedalus and Casablanca as a few alternatives.
"There's just nothing else that's big enough," Shani says. "Harvard's losing a real social establishment."
Grafton Street employees say they wish they could have at least stayed through commencement.
"I just feel really bad for the kids who have gotten used to having this place around," says waiter Alex Kleinschmitt. "It's a good crowd of people and such a convenient, central spot. It's really become a big part of everyone's social life."
Diana Kim '01, who held her birthday at Grafton last year and comes to the bar about once a week, says she agrees.
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