I love how the building is turning out. I really do. But the bar has been a source of frustration from the get-go. Somehow, there have been mismeasurements and miscommunications about the bar from the very first, from a mismeasurement of the beer cooler by three feet to today’s problem, two days before our final […]
The light fixtures have come with us to New Feast, and, Surprise of Surprises, the lighting guy who sent us the wrong color fixtures (which, incidentally, won’t be in until well after we’re open) also managed to short us about twenty-five eight-foot lengths of track. The good news is our industrious electricians managed to salvage […]
Light fixtures are starting to go in, both the right ones and the wrong ones.
I was honored yesterday to have been told, “you’re just a right-brain thinker and you can’t help it” in regard to how my office looks, because most people just think I’m an incredible slob, and I think I’m just plain scattered. Anyhow, this should resolve any future disputes over how my piles of disorganized papers […]
I feel like Al at Bargain Center Furniture Warehouse on receiving day, but this stuff”s not for sale except in the recent past, to me. In any case, I’m glad we have some, since we’ll no longer be next to a furniture store.
The flooring for the wine room was all set to arrive yesterday, and it did, albeit in Indio or someplace. With the flooring not arriving until Thursday now, the wine room shelving will have to bask in the morning sun, and we’ll need to seal the floor in order to pass our health inspection.
The cuvinet’s up and the bar’s been stained again; a few trim pieces and we’ll be set. Behind the bar is another story; after a series of unfortunate mismeasurements, we’ve discovered that not only did we have to buy a new beer cooler, but our soda setup will belatedly have to come into the kitchen, […]
For nine years, Feast has had the tragic dish station setup of a bunch of plastic shelving units that were left behind from when the restaurant was called La Fonda. La Fonda had delicious food, but an unfortunate concept of restaurant logistics. I remember eating there once as a party of four, none of whom […]
We passed the first critical inspection, so southwest Gas came and turned everything on yesterday. And I forgot these three guys in my previous post. Sorry, gents. And thanks for the gas.
It’s the last week of construction, I hope, and New Feast is a beehive of activity. There were three electricians, five plumbers, two fire suppression installers, two guys doing millwork, an exterminator, eleven of Feast’s kitchen staff, three of Feast’s dining room staff, a cleaning crew of five, me, the project manager, the point-of-sale guy, […]