After an 18 day closure due to a kitchen fire, Manhattan’s beloved bar, The Dead Rabbit has re-opened.

On July 1st, firefighters responded to the bar, located the Financial District after receiving a report of a fire in the kitchen ventilation system. Nobody was hurt in the incident but the bar received “considerable fire and water damage” and had to close.

The fire had started in the ducts and quickly spread through the building. By the time it was put out, it had caused an estimated half a million dollars worth of damage.

Yesterday, the bar announced its reopening on Instagram. “It was a sad and frightening time for us all at first,” the caption read. “And now we’ve got our bar back. So you do too.”

“Aside from opening the bar, these two-and-a-half weeks has been the most taxing period I’ve ever had,” founder Jack McGarry told Forbes. “We have overcome worse. We have grit and resilience. You just have to power through another day.”

During the same interview, he also revealed that other bar owners had offered to employ Dead Rabbit bartenders until the bar was up and running again but McGarry declined the offers.

“They were trying to be nice, but we invest hundreds of thousands into training these guys,” he said. “We have to look after them.”

Investors also stepped in, putting together $200,000 to fix the extensive damage and actually complete some renovations and remodeling. The music system, electrical system, cameras, furniture, and flooring were all updated or replaced.

The renovations were also part of larger plans to expand the bar, which should be complete by October.