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Carol Moran is back in Wilton Manors with
Apt 9F drinking den By Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel
Both women say the vibe was It’s nothing official, but Carol Moran may hold some sort of record for the important to them. “We wanted people to feel at home — without screaming most businesses in Wilton Manors. Starting in 1998 and over the following over everybody,” Goldwin says. “A few 18 years, Moran owned Kicks Sports Bar, really good things to eat and the music New Moon nightclub, Thirteen Even is not blaring at you. That’s the kind of environment that we feel and Thirteen Restaurant comfortable in. We like and Bar (more on the those places that feel obsession with 13 later cozy and have personal on). touches. [Apt 9F] is really And now she and her like an apartment, if you wife Nancy Goldwin are have a really large bar.” back in SoFlo after three So, what’s Apt 9F like? years in Manhattan and Apt9F opened last have opened Apt 9F, month in the space which they describe as a where Naked Grape drinking den/social eatery. Wine Bar and Tapas used The name comes from to be. their Washington Heights Moran says Apt 9F apartment overlooking currently has nine the Hudson River. specialty cocktails, 70 “It looks like an liquors, 20 wines and 20 apartment,” Moran says, beers. describing Apt 9F, in - Carol Moran Business owner “And you know I’m a the heart of their old wine snob, so our wines stomping grounds, Wilton are great,” Moran says. Manors. “It’s literally our “You know the town is doing dollar apartment from New York City. “I want it to be like, here is my house drinks [and] that makes no sense to party. Before you go out for a big night, me. I can’t afford to do that. We will do stop by my apartment first or before a happy hour, but I can’t do dollar well you go home stop by for a little cocktail drinks. I’m not big enough.” A coffee machine is on the way. Like nightcap.”
“It looks like an apartment. It’s literally our apartment from New York City.”
Carol Moran at Apt 9F enjoying a mimosa. Photo via Apt 9F, Facebook.
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The Three R’s… Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
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Reading, writing and arithmetic are the fundamentals for early learning. These core skills might just offer us insight into a more recent rendition of the Three R’s: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. We will certainly be reading more about recycling here in Wilton Manors and throughout the region, especially since the arithmetic will add up to costing residents a lot more money. Many recent discussions blame China for the recycling catastrophe facing cities throughout our region. China is not to blame for this mess. Our neglectful creation of tons of contaminated, unusable trash that we pass off as co-mingled recyclables is the real culprit that got us into this mess. The global market for co-mingled recyclables, of which China was the largest purchaser, no longer exists. This hasn’t stopped us from filling up our Green Bins each week, putting them at the end of the higher and higher cost to have co-mingled recyclables carted off. drive, and having the contents carted away. One new costly problem facing cities is At the end of the day we all go to bed believing we did our part saving the planet the contamination rate of the recyclable material. We have grown and that all is right in the very lazy over the years, world. Unfortunately, filling up our Green Bins most of this co-mingled Have you joined with dirty cans, pizza boxes, mess goes to the waste-toplastic bags, and so much energy plant to be burnt as the Gazette’s more. We got accustomed fuel, with some even being Facebook page? to believing that almost dumped in landfills. Now everything is recyclable by with higher bills coming Do so today just placing it all within the due, residents will be asked to join the magic Green Bin. Cities must to pay much more each have a comprehensive public month to keep this charade conversation. education plan in place to going. make resident’s aware of As new contracts are the new reality of recycling. put in place between Facebook.com/ Here in Wilton Manors, city municipalities and trash groups/WMGazette staff began the process of removal companies such as informing residents, but Waste Management, rising much more needs to be done. costs can no longer be Reaching a few hundred avoided by elected officials, residents and city management. The big residents here and there at neighborhood question is how much more residents are association meetings and similar events will willing to pay to have their Green Bins not be enough. The City needs to undertake carted away each week, especially when a major education campaign, using every most of the contents might be disposed of possible means of reaching residents. Each in the same manner as what’s in the regular and every household’s Green Bin should have their lid covered with a new, updated, trash bins. Gone are the good ole days when cities large decal graphically showing what should made money on recycle programs. Now and should not be placed inside. Random the only one making money is Waste inspections might have to be done around Management, with regained monopolistic town with punitive citations issued to those power over the waste disposal business here who consistently fail to comply. Residents should not be the only ones who in South Florida. Residents will now pay
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Carol Moran is back in Wilton Manors with Apt 9F drinking den Continued from page 1 the craft cocktail menu, the small plate menu is still being developed, having started with a charcuterie dish. “Both of us like to eat that way,” Goldwin says. “We like to sample a lot of things. Neither one of us like to eat a humongous meal. We will probably stay with smaller plates. We don’t see ourselves being a full-plate or massive sit-down place with steak and those kinds of things.” She also says they are trying new dishes at home first, testing them out on friends. “Our friends are our guinea pigs sort of. A lot of our recipes evolve from us experimenting at home,” Goldwin adds. The front area has couches with small coffee tables as well as an intimate area at the window with a table for two. In the back dining area is a six-top table, modeled after a dining room in an apartment, that is placed beside the open kitchen. The color scheme is a golden marigold and a deep blue. The walls are covered with a jumble of art and photographs (Moran and Goldwin say they are huge art supporters) from both close friends, local artists and some work by Goldwin herself. The bar seats 12 people while the outside patio/bistro area in front could seat another 22 people. The entire space can handle a maximum of 46 people, but 30-35 is probably a more comfortable number, the women say. How the move back to SoFlo came about Three years ago the couple moved to New York City, where Moran became a
“This is my home. Sometimes you have to step away to know what you are missing.” - Carol Moran
Business owner
A look inside of Apt 9F, as it appears in the header of the new business’s Facebook page. Photo via Apt 9F, Facebook.
food and beverage executive for Hyatt Hotels Corporation and Goldwin, who is a photographer, took her “dream job” as a marketing manager for Manfrotto photography equipment. While there, Moran also was a manager and ran the wine program for Pisticci restaurant. But both women eventually became homesick for South Florida and realized that they were happiest when they owned their own businesses. “I realized I miss my home, my community,” says Moran, a South Florida native. “This is my home. Sometimes you have to step away to know what you are missing. It’s not a bad thing. It’s cathartic, you know? Life is too short to for something you don’t love.” So in a three-week period earlier this summer, the couple sold the Fort Lauderdale house they had been renting out while living in NYC, bought a condominium on Bayview Drive, packed up their Manhattan apartment and moved back to Broward County. Less than a month later, they opened Apt. 9F. “It was the best unplanned planned thing ever,” says Goldwin, who adds that they did look at some locations in Manhattan, but “ ... both of our parents are gone. Our chosen family is here. We have a life here. All of the obstacles kind of cleared.” One of those obstacles was clearing the 48hour hurdle. “We have a 48-hour rule,” Goldwin explains. “It’s our little inside joke: If we feel the same way 48 hours later, we might pursue it or look at it more deeply.” She adds, “Everything was right [about Apt 9F]. The rent was right. The spot was right.
The build-out was right.” What’s the deal with the number 13? For Goldwin and Moran, 13 has been a lucky number. “We actually met through a mutual acquaintance ... and it was on a Friday the 13th,” recalls Goldwin, who was born and raised in western New York, but moved here with her family in 1979. “We bought our house on the 13th.”
And they signed a lease for their first jointly owned restaurant, 13 Even, on the 13th. That restaurant, which focused on tapas and craft beers, opened in 2013. So it was a no-brainer what to call the larger, full-kitchen restaurant they opened two years later: Thirteen Restaurant and Bar. Though they were not fully up-andrunning, Apt 9F opened on Tuesday, Aug. 13. WMG
If you go info Apt 9F is located at 2163 Wilton Drive, in Wilton Manors. For more information, call 954-880-1191 or go to Facebook.com/apt9f or apt9f.com. Apt 9F is open Mondays-Sundays from 4 p.m. to midnight.
The newly remodeled location featured a teaser ad with Carol Moran prior to opening. Photo via Apt 9F, Facebook.
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