WMG Volume 6 • Issue 18 September 18, 2019
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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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