A Brew Pub... Plus

Elk Creek Cafe + ale works. Is it a restaurant or is it a pub? Is it an ampersand or is it a plus sign. What is is consistant and consistancy in design is the mark of a good business. They are also consistant in deliverying very tastey brew, delicious vegan options on their menu and a friendly staff.

To answer the burning question about the "+" in the name of the establishment, we asked the proprietor, Tim, how you say the name. He said it is, "Elk Creek Cafe and ale works." So we are glad to count this plus sign as an ampersand found!

Store Sign

We’ve seen this sign in little strip malls we drive by in our travels throughout the state, and one day while walking in a blizzard, we realized that the grape vine was an ampersand. I think the clip art grapes just made me overlook this one.

THAT'S not an Ampersand!

This will be a fun theme to follow over the years. Apparently people will sometimes use object to represent ampersands. As if the sweet little contraction alone wasn't good enough, occasionally it will be replaced with an object that is not an ampersand at all. Sometimes this is by mistake as is shown by the use of a G Clef in Stephen Gose's ampersand blog.

We were lucky to find one represented by The Eiffel Tower inside the André & Arlette cleaners on 3rd Ave, upper east side in New York City. The front of the building hosted a couple of conventional script font ampersands.

André & Arlette's cleaners on 3rd Ave. They want to play up on their French-ness and added an Eiffel Tower after their names. Ooo la la!

Close up of the main sign's script ampersand.

Looking inside the closed store front, through the locked gate, the Eiffel Tower has migrated to between their names and replaced the ampersand. Hey!! That's not an ampersand!