For almost seventeen years Nigel and Kathy Hughes have kept the Sidewalk going, not just kept it going, but carved out a niche for the establishment in the competitive and continually changing tastes in the urban entertainment. The chic night clubs, daring dee jays and dancehall music have, from time to time, risen up to issue their own challenges; the Sidewalk Café has chosen its own path, endearing itself to a separate clientele by offering a tasteful – some say and old-fashioned environment of relaxing ambience, tasty food and classy music.
There’s a market for entertainment and fine dining in the capital particularly among the rising numbers of young and not-so-young upwardly mobile people, big spenders, who seek their money’s worth. When you ask the opinions of the night-life people on what the Sidewalk Café has to offer you find that mostly, they prefer the racier environment of the Night Clubs, the noise, the sweat and the sexual tension. Sill, over the years, enough of the market has responded to what the Sidewalk has offered, ‘cool’ music including live local and international jazz artistes,