Last fall, a Facebook post hinted that the iconic Anton’s restaurant, also known as Cellar Anton’s, on Battleground Avenue was being torn down.
The erroneous post elicited hundreds of outcries of anguish, memories of meals past and demonization of developers for erasing a slice of Greensboro.
Finally, Phil Segal, the guy who bought the building not long after the restaurant closed in 2014, set the record straight. Anton’s was gone forever, but the building itself would live on for many decades to come in its new incarnation, Havana Phil’s Cigar Company.
Yes, Segal is Havana Phil, having assumed the moniker when he opened his first cigar store five years ago farther down Battleground Avenue, beside Lowe’s.
When he got word that the property in the triangle between Battleground Avenue and Northwood Street was on the market, he called his friend, Bob Isner, who owns Greensboro Contracting Corp., and the two went to have a look-see. Read More>
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