Popular Manhattan Beach sports bar Sharks Cove to become upscale Mex restaurant
Sharks Cove owner Scotty McColgan with the downtown sport’s bar new owner Greg Newman. Photo Scotty McColgan, whose family’s Hermosa Beach bars and restaurants have included Point 705, Mickey McColgan’s, Club Sushi and Sharks Cove, is selling his Manhattan Beach Sharks Cove to another local, family owned restaurant group. The downtown sports bar’s new owner will be the Newman family, whose restaurants and bars include two Baja Sharkeez’s in Manhattan and one in Hermosa, as well as Palmilla Cocina Y Tequila and the soon to be open Tower 12 in Hermosa. McColgan opened Sharks Cove on St. Patrick’s Day in 2004 to a standing room only crowd. The sports bar continues to be popular, despite the early reservations of some city councilmembers. “I think there’s tremendous potential for [negative] impact on our town,” then councilwoman Joyce Fahey said during a 2003 public hearing on McColgan’s requests for giant plasma TV’s and a cooking station on the patio facing Manhattan Beach Boulevard. The request was denied for fear, as one resident told the council, “It would roll back Manhattan to the alcohol scene of the last decade.” “Sports bars were a new concept,” McColgan said. Newman is…
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