New owners for Art’s Tavern in Glen Arbor!

The Glen Arbor Sun shares that Glen Arbor’s iconic Art’s Tavern has been sold to Barb and Paul Olson:

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Barb and Paul Olson will officially become Art’s fourth owners since Prohibition when the contracts are signed on Monday, June 2. The Olsons are part of a group that owns restaurants including the Jolly Pumpkin and Mission Table on Traverse City’s Old Mission Peninsula. But Art’s will be theirs, alone. And they don’t plan to change a thing—other than a few menu tweaks in the fall and winter.

“The first question people have asked me is ‘Will you take credit cards?’ Nope. ‘Will you change anything?’ Nope,” Paul Olson told the Glen Arbor Sun. Everything will remain: the pennants on the walls and ceiling, the Christmas decoration, the retractable pool table, the shot ski. All of it. It’s been so much fun to tell people who get Art’s that we’re buying it. The people who get the history, the special place it is. Art’s is an iconic restaurant. I just want to be its steward.”

Art’s will be closed today & tomorrow and reopens on Wednesday, June 4th. Read more in the Glen Arbor Sun!

Tom took this back in April of 2020. Not much has changed!! See more in his “Up North” Michigan gallery on Flickr!