Clicquot Club

There's a new cafe in our neighborhood, just a block and a half away from our place (and halfway to the park) called the Clicquot Club Cafe. It's in a cute building with a big Orange Crush ad on one side and a big ancient looking "Clicquot Club" sign on the other. It has been empty and closed most of the time we've been here (5 yrs), and we always wondered, 1) what did that building used to be for and 2) what in the world is Clicquot Club and how do you pronounce it? Well one day the Orange Crush sign got a fresh paint job, then shortly after the "Clicquot Club" sign got replaced with a bigger better one, and then a sign got slapped on the door that said "opening soon!" We were thrilled, although it took another year before it really did open. We went there tonight to check it out and see whether we could get our questions answered. It was a great place, with terrific food and an impressive menu with all kinds of hippie veggie stuff and fancy coffee drinks, but we're still not sure how to pronounce it, and we have no idea what the building used to be. We do know what "Clicquot Club" is though. It used to be a soda company that made high-class root beer and such and was the first company to sell soda in tin cans. They got "crushed" by Orange Crush and eventually ran out of business.
We like root beer, and hippie veggie food and fancy coffee drinks are totally righteous, plus it's only a block and a half away, so we awarded them with ten million points and decided to definitely go back, maybe even later tonight. It does stress me out a little that only three blocks the other way down our street is another restaraunt with the exact same hippie veggie food and fancy coffee drinks, so it'll be hard to decide between the two, and hopefully they'll both survive, but I guess for now the more the merrier.