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Exciting new nightspot opens at Baken Park



The Park is an upscale gathering spot for dining, beverages, and entertainment for the community and visitors. Their cuisine focuses on ‘variety’ and ‘quality’ featuring an innovative spin on certain dishes, but also featuring classic community favorites. The facility showcases some of the most impressive design features and décor such as the golden tree in the lobby. The bar has an upscale experience featuring hand-crafted cocktails with an emphasis on house-made recipes/ingredients. Their wine and beer will pair nicely for any occasion or meal.

The Park is a new eating and entertainment establishment located at Baken Park in Rapid City. Grouchy came to check out the Park it’s definitely not like anything Grouchy has seen in Rapid City before. It has an out of town feel, like Grouchy was in Vegas. It gave just the right feel for a night owl such as Grouchy Breakfast is served all night long. Grouchy came out for some ice cream but decided to get a side of fries and a slice of cheese cake. The fries were fresh and the cheese cake was exquisite. This is the perfect place for the night owls to come and grab a soda and a snack if you are restless and needing some entertainment.

The Park’s website is very stylish. It opens with the camera panning through the building, past the tables, pool tables, foyer displays, bar stools. It’s an ambitious and artfully crafted setting in a town where such settings are rare. Even though the establishment is very spacious, it is filled with specific areas radiating a signature ambience. Right when you walk in the front door there is a beautiful golden tree making it feel like you are at a real park.

At the website, under Features and Amenities, the Park drops what amounts to a mission statement: “The Park is an upscale gathering spot for dining, beverages, and entertainment for the community and visitors. Our cuisine focuses on ‘variety’ and ‘quality’ featuring an innovative spin on certain dishes, but also featuring classic community favorites. The facility will showcase some of the most impressive design features and decor.

The bar will be an upscale experience featuring hand-crafted cocktails with an emphasis on house-made recipes/ingredients. Our wine and beer offerings will pair nicely for any occasion or meal.”

The restaurant in the front is open until 10:00 p.m. Grouchy came a little later and ate at the bar. The kitchen stays open until 2:00 with a selected menu after 10:00, but the chef was willing to cook whatever folks wanted on the menu. The 707, which is the bar part of the restaurant, and where Grouchy sat to eat, is open until 2:00 a.m. The venue attached to the bar was hosting a free concert which was a total surprise! Grouchy ended up going in to see a free rock concert after we were done eating. And that was a short trip, just to another part of the building. I know, some of you are saying, I had no idea Grouchy was down with rock, but Grouchy has eclectic tastes in both food and music and can hoot with the owls or fly with the eagles. The band performed right in the building and they did a cover of Zombie by the Cranberries, and the lead singer, the way she handled the song, was a spittin’ image of the original, the late Irish vocalist, Delores O’Riordan. They had a professional dance floor with 6,000 sq ft of seating space. Grouchy’s overall rating for this establishment is a 5 star restaurant. But it’s more than just a restaurant, it is a late night old school happening at a post-Covid time when we need a lot more places just like it.

The Park is located at 707 Mountain View Rd, Rapid City. Contact—events@thepark707.com, to book your next meeting or event.

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