![]() ![]() When working together to pick he name for their new restaurant, Miller and Cole found themselves thinking to the current pandemic. I mean, it’s just totally a cycle and it works out really well for everyone and I talked to the other downtown business owners and they feel the same way … they’re just happy something new is downtown.” I know some people at dinner here last night and after they left here they went to Blackthorn to have some drinks. “Really, I hope to bring more business downtown,” Miller said. “I’ve always felt that none of us are in competition down here, we are all supportive of each other when something new opens because it really only helps bring traffic downtown, you know. “And yeah, we just both had the opportunity, and the opportunity came up and we were like, ‘yeah, let’s do this down here.’ And we got this great space, so lucky to get this space.” “… So, we’d just known each other for a long time, been good friends,” Miller said. Miller said she and Cole have been friends for 25 years, having worked together at Club 609 in their twenties. “… We’ve worked at several places in town and owned a few restaurants in town, so this is just a new venture for us really.”īefore opening Beast & Barrel, Miller owned four Joplin restaurants, including: Eagle Drive-In, open nine years and recently closed in December 2020 Instant Karma, open 10 years and closed in June 2020 due to the pandemic Midtown Pizza Company and Jasper’s Juicery. “I think we really just wanted to be downtown and be part of the downtown scene, just part of the community down here,” Miller said. “I think we really just wanted to be downtown and be part of the downtown scene, just part of the community down here …” Suzanne Miller, Beast & Barrel Co-Owner Opening Beast & Barrel, Miller said, was a way for her to have a new start, as she said she “wanted something different.” Miller and Cole have over 30 years of experience in the restaurant business each. Suzanne Miller-previous owner of Eagle Drive-In, Instant Karma, and others-in partnership with Brian Cole officially opened Beast & Barrel Wednesday, February 10.īeast & Barrel offers traditional cuisine “with a twist,” according to Miller, and they recently received their liquor license. Downtown Joplin has a new eatery that just opened this month, but by a Joplin-known co-owner. ![]()
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