The Compound - New Kennedy Themed Hyannis Bar &
Restaurant
By ROBERT GOLD rgold@capecodonline.com
The Compound Bar and Grille, which opened May 24 at 644 Main
St., less than 4 miles from the actual Kennedy compound in Hyannisport,
features photos of JFK on the walls and the Kennedy name on some menu items.
Part of the theme, though, was eyebrow-raising: The
restaurant's initial drinks menu listed cocktails with names such as "the
Honey Fitz" and "PT-109" but also included "Dealey
Plaza
"I didn't even see that on the menu," Keville said
when notified by the Times. "I wouldn't sign off on that." He called
it "a bit macabre for me."
The drink is a mix of Smirnoff sorbet raspberry passion fruit
and prosecco with raspberry-flavored ice.
Keville said the cocktail menu was provided by the
restaurant's liquor distributor, United Liquors, and was drafted by the
distributor after a "heated debate" with the Compound's manager over
the use of Kennedy-themed names. The menus arrived at the restaurant several
days after it opened, Keville said.
The names were overlooked by staff during the large amount
of preparatory work of opening the restaurant, Keville said, adding that the
manager was upset when they were later called to her attention.
United Liquors disagrees. "The drink names probably
would've come from the account," said Tim Bruce, manager of United's
graphics department. "I'll produce anything a restaurant wants, but I'm
not going to tell them what to do."
Either way, the contentious cocktail names are off the menu.
Keville spoke with the Compound's staff Monday afternoon and
said the cocktail lists were immediately pulled.
New menus are expected today. Gone are "Dealey
Plaza
"As the owner, I absolutely have no tolerance for those
sort of things," Keville said.
The drinks have been renamed "Cool as a Cucumber,"
the "USS Rose" and the "St. Crispin."
Elizabeth Wurfbain, executive director of the Hyannis Main
Street Business Improvement District, said she hadn't noticed the
original drink names on the menu, but said it was smart to remove them.
She said the restaurant, located in the site most recently
home to Ardeo on Main , was a good addition to downtown
because many visitors still are drawn to Hyannis
"They all want to see the Kennedy compound," she
said. "They love the Kennedy mystique."
New exhibit documents JFK’s last visits to Cape
Cod in the months before assassination
By Associated Press,
Officials at the John
F. Kennedy Hyannis
Museum Cape Cod lens.
Museum Development Director John Allen says visitors will
see images including JFK swimming with his children and the president kissing
his father’s head on the family’s porch.
He says the exhibit also strives to capture the family’s
grief after the death of the president and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s
newborn son, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, in August 1963.
The exhibit also explores how JFK’s assassination in
November 1963 affected people on the Cape .
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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