A staple of the city’s nightlife on Mill Avenue will hold final toasts starting on Wednesday. Author: Julian Paredes Updated: 5:55 PM MST May 19, 2021
TEMPE, Ariz. In Irish Gaelic,
slán go fóill means “goodbye for now.”
It’s a fitting phrase as an iconic Irish bar that was a stable of Tempe nightlife prepares to close its doors.
Rula Bula located right on Mill Avenue in Tempe, just a short jaunt from Arizona State University, will hold a series of final toasts on the nights before its closure on May 23.
Its own name comes from the Gaelic phrase
Rula Bula Irish Pub in Tempe is closing: When you can get a final pint of Guinness there
Rula Bula Irish Pub, a staple pub in downtown Tempe, will close over the summer after being unable to come to an agreement over lease terms with its landlord. The founder is now looking to raise money to help his staff and to potentially look at relocating the bar somewhere else.
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TEMPE, AZ â Rula Bula Irish Pub in downtown Tempe will serve its final pints of Guinness and close its doors on Sunday, May 23, the bar announced Friday.
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For more than 20 years, Arizona State University students and Tempe revelers have counted on Rula Bula as a destination for perfectly poured pints of Guinness, live music and reliably good times. While other Mill Avenue bars changed names as capriciously as a college freshman settling on a major, Rula Bula always promised a sizable crowd, an affordable cover and plenty of space to stretch out and settle in on the back patio.
But soon, all that will come to an end.
In 2019, Wexford Developments of Calgary, whose U.S. division is based in West Palm Beach, Florida, bought the Andre Building. Wexford is landlord to several other Mill Avenue businesses, including P.F. Chang s and Charlie Trumbull s.
Following the purchase of the building, Rula Bula s founder, Steve Goumas, says he requested a long-term lease from the Wexford folks real long, like 30 or 100 years. The pub previously had a 10-year lease from 2000 to 2010, which it then extended in two five-year chunks.
Wexford said no dice on the long-term lease, offering Rula Bula in 2019 a ten-year option at a price that Goumas says was much more than it had been paying.