The last bits are all falling into place at Feast. The tables and chairs are all here and in place; the cabinetry’s done; the computer’s working (only four phone calls to tech support, two visits for the hardware and three remote visits from the ether to get the software behaving).
While this whole adventure has been fascinating, frustrating, euphoria-inducing, and exhausting, ultimately, building a restaurant is not about the building. Every time I’ve ever gone to one, the primary objective has been to get something to eat. And we’ve finally started cooking. It’s nearly restaurant time.
The original plan was to offer up the wine wall of Old Feast in its entirety, only in a back-to-back format. It seemed too clunky, though, and we’d have had to sacrifice a table, so that wouldn’t do. We decided to separate it into two walls, one on either side of the room. When we […]
There are some things I do well, though I don’t like to brag. I’m a good cook, I can talk some remarkably talented people into working together to create a dining experience that’s good for most (though admittedly not all). I used to be able to draw well and I probably could again if I […]
You may recall the three flatbed loads of wine that we brought into Feast the other night. Well, it’s nearly all in its place now, and it’s starting to look pretty sharp. Here’s the dwindling supply in the private dining room, and the burgeoning stacks in the wine room. We’ve all moved some of it, […]
It turns out that while you’re opening up a restaurant, you focus on the building, but once you get the opportunity to start cooking, there are certain accoutrements one cannot do without. One of them is a place to put your garbage. That arrived on Monday, and we’ve been going full tilt since then. So […]
Everything’s at last in its place in the kitchen, with a couple of small exceptions, but we’re getting really, really close. the dining room still has a way to go. Look out, Tucson, Feast is nearly open again. Just a few more days.
Ernie from Tucson Asphalt arrived yesterday, not realizing that the entire staff of Feast was going to be in and out of the building all day. He patched a couple of spots and left, vowing to return next Monday when we’re closed, and he gave a horrified look regarding the pigeon feathers. Next year, I […]
Saturday I was so in the thick of it that I didn’t think of getting out my camera, but we tried to move the shed behind Old Feast to the area behind New Feast yesterday and all we did was endanger the lives of several people, nearly shear the shed into two or more pieces, […]
I don’t know if you saw the junkpile from yesterday’s posts that rivaled Sanford and Son, but now the kitchen looks like a kitchen. We still have a junkpile out back, as the dumpsters won’t arrive until Monday, but we’re getting there.