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Decanters, IMPOS and inappropriate bridesmaids. How do they all collide?
You are looking at 5 decanters sitting on the bench top in the house of one of my dearest friends. (Doesn’t it look like a shot from a Martha Stewart mag?) The five decanters they got for their...
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Open date is set, mount washmore grows and nursery rhymes reign
Standards are dropping pretty low on the home front around here. Mount Washmore continues to defy geological odds by actually increasing in height, as washing gets cleaned, dried but not folded, we...
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Email is activated, reservations are most welcomed!
The Management crew started today – THANK HEAVENS – and HY was a veritable hive of activity today. There’s Cassie, our FOH manager, buried behind sundry bar items we dumped on the bar. It was such a...
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On a slow boat to China
Do you know that song. Liza does a great version of it. I’d love to get you on a slow boat to china, All to myself all alone. It’s a beautiful song, but I think it has been ruined for me, because it...
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The chefs are in the kitchen
Hello blog, long time no chat. Since we last spoke we’ve built a greenhouse… Gregory spent the day running between the kitchen where he brined ducks and the greenhouse, where he bolted shelves to...
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All you ever need is a really good screw
After I informed Ash of the great chair disaster of 2012, (horribly timed with her having just pushed ‘purchase’ on her ticket back here from NYC based on the expected arrival date of the chairs) and...
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Sometimes you have fortuitous misfortunes…
If we ever decided to do a restaurant fit-out again, I would be oh-so-wise and savvy to the world of renovations. I’d know things like; • start ordering your lighting now, even then they’ll still be...
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REVIEWERS, BABYSITTERS & THE OBLIGATORY PRE-SHIFT SHOT
It’s a long weekend. Who knew? My parents did evidently, and they’ve chooffed off to the south coast jazz festival with friends. Fine, except that they’re our chief babysitters, and their seconds (one...
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MACGYVER MEETS PSYCHOLOGIST – THE IDEAL ELECTRICIAN
Good lighting is essential in a restaurant, which is a shame because lighting gave me the irrates. Is that even a word? My mum used to say it to us when we were annoying her as kids. But that’s...
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EINSTEIN’S DEFINITION OF INSANITY…
Need some cash? Send us a bogus invoice, we’ll pay it. Seriously. I’ve just got off the phone with one of our purveyors who thanked us kindly for the three payments I’d made, none of which match any...
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MORE CULTURE THAN A TUB OF YOGHURT – HARTSYARD’S FIRST EVER ART EXHIBITION
When I was about six months pregnant with our first daughter, my mother set me up on a date. It’s not that she didn’t like my husband, at least, not that i’m aware of, (kidding, my mother and husband...
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RELATIONSHIPS, CHRISTMAS SPIRIT AND OPENING A BAR. FAREWELL 2014
I’ve been trying to write a blog for a while now, but things keep cropping up. Things like only working when your children sleep. What a dumb idea that is.Remind me to do something about that in the...
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SHANE WARNE, TERRY DURACK AND PORTRAITS OF DUCKS
Gregory has been asked to be a panel member at Food Service Magazine’s Masterclass about owning a cafe or a restaurant and you can buy your tickets here. I am not at all offended that they didn’t ask...
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