In late 2020, the Rose celebrated its tenth anniversary in South Park, an impressive milestone for any restaurant or bar let alone one reached during an overwhelmingly terrible year for the hospitality industry. Near the start of the pandemic, after temporarily closing the wine bar, co-founder Chelsea Coleman documented her fears for the Rose’s future in an essay for Eater, writing about the particularly vulnerable state of small, independently-run businesses like hers.
Through the stops and starts, the Rose hung on, and just finally resumed indoor operations on May 1; Coleman says she delayed reopening indoors until all her employees had reached their two-week post-vaccination threshold.