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Been Wondering What Will Become Of The Old Luna Live? Let’s Ask Scott McInnis<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Justin Morris<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, I told you a story that was supposed to be about the end of a local musical era. It ended up being about the growth and expansion of what is easily one of downtown\u2019s most iconic restaurants. while the original \u201cnext step\u201d plan for what was formerly Luna Live seemed to have fallen through, another fresh idea has blown in and landed in the 710 Ryan street location.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Enter \u201cThe Zephyr Brew House,\u201d which first introduced itself during this year\u2019s Chuck Fest and is awaiting its proper grand opening in the coming weeks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Zephyr\u2019s proprietor is not new to the Lake Area. While he\u2019s worn many hats (and badges, as it were) over the years, Scott McInnis is ready to don the downtown business owner hat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll admit that I\u2019ve known the guy for the better part of a decade, during my tenure booking and running shows for a local casino. \u201cGinny,\u201d as many of us call him, was my armed off-duty officer for a great many of the national touring acts we brought in (Ask him about the Eddie Money show. That one\u2019s a killer.).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, his story starts long before his time with the Westlake PD.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople are enthusiastic, and they are really excited to see what this place is going to be. It’s a little something for everybody”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWell, I was all over the place, I guess. I started my early years in New York, but I don\u2019t remember a whole lot of it. I moved to Westlake when I was really young, right before I started school, but I grew up here, graduated from Westlake High in 2003 and went to McNeese up until the hurricane, when I transferred to the University of North Texas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter I got out, I got into the military and joined the Coast Guard. I did my first tour, and I was kind of thinking of trying to go for officer. I\u2019ll be honest with you, man. I saw The Guardian, and I was like, \u2018I want to do that.\u2019 So, that turned out to be a lot different than the movie. My first run was on a buoy tender, so I finally got where I could go do what I wanted to do and swim and save and everything, and it was just not like the movie. It\u2019s not like that at all. It\u2019s terrible. So, it wasn\u2019t for me. But I lived in New England. I lived in Boston, I lived in New York. I lived in Rhode Island and I stayed in the Cape Cod area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI actually lived above L Street Tavern, so I\u2019m bringing a lot of south Boston tradition. I want to do bacon. Instead of having bar nuts or chips and salsa, I want to do thick cut bacon. It\u2019s delicious and it makes you thirsty. That\u2019s a Boston thing. That\u2019s an L Street Tavern thing, where they filmed Good Will Hunting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnyway, after that, I moved home. I was a police officer for a while. I guess, technically six years, but I got run over in the line of duty, and I was out for a while. I had to have some surgeries and things like that, and then just kind of realized that it\u2019s not really my thing, either. Seriously though, it was bad, man. I had to get some (spinal) fusions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo that (police work) was done. I\u2019m sure I could\u2019ve been like a dispatcher or something, but I couldn\u2019t be out in the field anymore after an injury like that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I was still young and had to do something, right? My dad is an electrician and shot right up through the ranks, so I figured I\u2019d try that … I worked my way up to management, became an industrial electrician, and then got a break and … got into operations. I\u2019m still an operator, actually. My wife and I also own a nursery on Country Club Road called Seasonal Colors, so I\u2019ve got my hands in a couple of things. But I\u2019ve been wanting to do this (Zephyr\u2019s) for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis\u201d is going to be a 41-tap driven restaurant, bar and venue, with an emphasis on the beer and venue aspects, certainly in its early days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

McInnis says that he wants the biggest beer offering in town with as much available on tap as he can fit in (from domestics to crafts and seasonals on down).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the food front, he\u2019s harkening back to his New York days and will be serving up handmade New York slices and pies. On the entertainment front, he\u2019s looking to be largely special in-house event. He will offer up a broad cross-section of musical acts and comics featuring the local scene as well as national touring acts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the food:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, you can\u2019t come out the gates hot when you have got the number one restaurant in Southwest Louisiana across the street, so we\u2019re not going to be having tuna. I don\u2019t want to compete with anybody because we\u2019re not here to do that. You\u2019ve known me since I was a cop. I\u2019m genuine. I don\u2019t want to be anybody\u2019s competition. I want to work together with everyone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, we\u2019re going to start off small obviously, and we\u2019re starting with pizza. New York pizza. It just can\u2019t be replicated. They think it\u2019s in the water or something. So, having lived up there, we got in on these family recipes. These are going to be handmade, big New York slices and 18-inch pies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to go traditional, at first, but then as we grow we\u2019ll be doing themed pizzas, like the Swamp Thing, that\u2019ll have duck, alligator, crawfish and shrimp. We\u2019ll also have a taco pizza that Sloppy Taco will be collaborating on. After that, we\u2019re going to do stuffed burgers and even have a menu of things you can stuff your burger with. We\u2019re going to do boiled crawfish on the weekends during crawfish season with Cajun and zydeco bands playing. It\u2019ll take time to build to that, but it\u2019s all going to just be fantastic when it gets there.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the venue and beer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of people wanted (Luna) Live back. A lot of people were bummed out. I know obviously the beer reps were a little bummed because Live was half their sales, having the largest selection of beer on tap in the area. We want to keep that going, and we know that we\u2019re always going to be in Luna Live\u2019s shadow, and that\u2019s not to say that that\u2019s a bad thing, but we are going to be different. We want to rock and roll, too, and the best part of it \u2014 the most valuable thing \u2014 is having Dave Evans right across the street. We just work so well together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to do things and have collaborations between us and Luna, and Panorama that\u2019s coming up down the road, and we\u2019re going to do stuff with Crystals. We\u2019re trying to make downtown a family-like thing. I mean, we\u2019re talking about Christmas parties with white elephant gifts and stuff like that. It will be family friendly when we\u2019re serving food during the day, but, you know, once the lights go down, we want that atmosphere where people … have a place to go … where someone cares about what people want.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of our bookings are going to come from finding out who the public wants to see. We\u2019re going to have great music, and we\u2019re going to have local music. I\u2019ll never forget about Lake Charles. This is where we came from. If we have a big name \u2014 and we have already been in contact with acts like The Toadies, Chevelle, Orgy, Saving Abel \u2014 if we have a big show like that, it\u2019s going to be opened by a local act \u2014 and I mean Lake Area local. That\u2019s important to me and that\u2019s going to happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, with comedy \u2014 I\u2019ve been talking with Brian Pitre and the Lake Charles comedy crew who want to do some shows here, and Jen Kober is already on the books for two shows on Dec. 8. We\u2019re really going to try to do as many different cool things that we can manage and try to provide something for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outside of his vision for Zephyr\u2019s, McInnis has a vision for downtown, as well. It\u2019s one shared by several other downtown movers and shakers, many of whom have gotten behind his efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, it was his fraternity brother and new neighbor Dave Evans who helped fan the fires that have made Zephyr\u2019s a reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want downtown to be cool again and, honestly, this was something that we\u2019ve always wanted to do. I never dreamed that downtown Lake Charles would be like my breakout spot. But man, Dave Evans \u2014 you just talk with him.\u00a0 <\/span>I came here booking a Mardi Gras venue and we start talking and Dave is so \u2014 I don\u2019t even know \u2014 contagious, you know? He cares about the community so much.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we were not his only option for this place. There were, I believe, five other people that wanted to buy it … but he wanted someone that he could collaborate with that not necessarily had the same vision that he had but had a vision of getting downtown back where it needs to be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019re so many things that me and Dave daily sit down and talk about. Chuck Fest is big right now. It\u2019s very big, but I\u2019m telling you, you ain\u2019t seen nothing yet. The plans that that man\u2019s got for Chuck Fest are going to blow up, and we\u2019re going to be a part of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Stutes (Brett and Amanda) from Sloppy Taco have been a huge help too, coming in to collaborate on a pizza with us. They\u2019re just a staple. Find me someone who hasn\u2019t heard of Sloppy Taco. You can\u2019t. They\u2019re just amazing genuinely great people.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd all these people are supposed to be my competitors, right? Not at all. I realized I needed pour spouts, and John from Crystal\u2019s just gives me bags of them, and then he invites me in and shows me all the stuff that he uses. He didn\u2019t have to do that. He could have told me to kick rocks, so it really already feels like a family up here, and I am so lucky to have that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think, in my heart of hearts, we\u2019re going to be very successful because I am surrounding myself with the most successful and genuine people that are not out to just make the buck or stab you in the back. They\u2019re just great people.\u201d<\/p>\n

McInnis is also using these newfound friendships to strike some sparks of his own. A new trivia league is in the plans to get all the hot downtown spots working together and sharing their clientele\u2019s week to week. Not only that, but he has plans for the future, many of which would use space in that building that hasn\u2019t been put to commercial use in decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cDave and I were talking (about Chuck Fest) and I was like \u2018I want something like that. Zephry\u2019s wants something like that.\u2019 So we are going to change the trivia game in Lake Charles forever. It\u2019ll be Zephyr\u2019s against Luna\u2019s or Zephyr\u2019s against Crystal\u2019s or whatever, and now you\u2019ve an atmosphere that gets somebody somewhere they may have never gone, and that\u2019s all we wanted to do. We want to bring downtown together; we want to have that cool vibe.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019ve also got bigger plans, The upstairs? That\u2019s huge. That\u2019s going to be a venue, rooftop dining. There\u2019s a third floor up there. We have big, big plans. Obviously, that takes some capital, so we\u2019re going to crawl before we walk. We\u2019ve go to make sure that we have this down pat first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lake Chuck got its first taste of Zephyr\u2019s courtesy of Chuck Fest, which is a baptism of fire in and of itself, but certainly so being located practically right at the foot of the main stage. It was a suitable introduction though, because before McInnis knew it, people started reaching out.<\/p>\n

\u201cChuck Fest was our first time to ever open the doors, and I couldn\u2019t have even imagined. Dave lined up all these bartenders to come help, but my wife, who doesn\u2019t need a bar card because we\u2019re the liquor license holders, got her bar card just so everyone knew that she had done it right along with them, and her first time ever behind a bar was at Chuck Fest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had some Jell-O shots we were giving out, and I was out shaking hands, kissing babies, and here she is behind the bar, just cranking it out! I was really proud of her.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that, we were going to be done until the grand opening. But then we got added to the Cyphacon Pub Crawl list on Friday, like, the night before the event, so we had to go get costumes and get ready and prepared for that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat was my first time behind a bar since college, when I worked at a martini bar in Dallas. Then Halloween had a pretty big turnout, and that was when it was hailing …<\/p>\n

\u201cBut even on the musical front \u2014\u00a0 <\/span>we went with The Tugboats for our official grand opening (after seeing them at) Chuck Fest. I had heard of The Tugboats, but I never actually heard Kevin sing, and he was just amazing. Then Kevin gets up there and introduces Katie, who is one of our liquor reps. I was, literally, talking to her the day before making orders. She was so good up there. I just watched everybody, and people are going, \u2018I\u2019ve got goosebumps.\u2019 That\u2019s when I knew \u2014 that\u2019s gotta be it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, the grand opening was set for Dec. 14, but then we got a phone call from Brittany Pfantz, who wanted to do a CD release party. Then we got contacted by somebody saying Jen Kober was interested in booking something. So, the official grand opening is still with The Tugboats on Friday,\u00a0 <\/span>Dec. 14, but the soft opening is going to be the weekend prior with Brittany Pfantz and The Sauce song debut and CD release party, with Band of Sinners and Bear and the Forest Friends on Friday, Dec. 7 and Jen Kober on Saturday Dec. 8, with two shows starting at 7 and 9 pm.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And while the early attention may have launched the ship a bit quicker than planned, Captain Ginny and crew are undaunted and steadfast. They are excited at the prospects of being a part of downtown. The fact that they are already seeing a similar enthusiasm from acts and patrons alike only encourages them all the more.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are enthusiastic, and they are really excited to see what this place is going to be. They\u2019re happy that they\u2019ll have a place where they can go listen to live music where it\u2019s not going to be $50 at the casino or to simply have a place where you can have a white elephant Christmas party. Some people don\u2019t have office Christmas parties, and some don\u2019t have family here that would do things like that. I would go to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow, we\u2019re dealing with people that we would never even be around and then we\u2019re exchanging gifts and interacting with people that you might never would have talked to or ever known. That<\/i> is Zephyr\u2019s. That\u2019s it. It\u2019s a little something for everybody. Everybody\u2019s welcome at Zephyr\u2019s.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And that includes you! Mark your calendars now for both the soft opening weekend with Brittany Phantz, Band of Sinners, Bear and The Forest Friends, Jen Kober on Dec. 7 and 8, and the grand opening with The Tugboats on Dec. 14.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Other than that, feel free to stop in, grab a pint, meet the man behind the magic and Zephyr to Lake Charles\u2019s downtown scene. Be sure to tell \u2018em ol\u2019 Justin sent ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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