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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Permits & Dinners
The work on Journeyman generally falls into two types: cool and exciting and tiring and stressful. Exhibit A: laying out the kitchen! Laying out the dining room! Designing menus! Designing the wine list! Talking to the wonderful Shelley of Albertine … Continue reading
Plans
We got final blueprints from Campbell for the building permit application today. Seeing them is a bit like the proverbial platonic backrub – awfully nice, but you can’t help thinking that there’s potentially something more exciting out there. The building … Continue reading
Meg!
This is Meg. Meg told us today that she’d definitely be working the front of house with us. Since we’ve been trying to persuade her to do so practically since day one, this makes us very happy. Besides being the … Continue reading
Needful things #5
Things you didn’t know you needed in a restaurant: a way of dealing with tips in Quickbooks.
Pending
The last week has been pretty rough, with the liquor licensing issue hanging over our heads, and final negotiations over the lease, and a bunch of other balls in the air. It’s surprising how abstract a process starting a restaurant … Continue reading
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Kitchen plans
Al sent us the final paper layout for the kitchen today. In some ways, this was the easy part of designing the kitchen, because it’s all about figuring out how to make things work. It’s thoughtful and interesting and playful … Continue reading
Window gardening
One of the aspects of Journeyman’s design and function that we are particularly excited about is our window garden. We have a giant boarded-up widow that we’d like to unboard, which will be a perfect space to grow herbs and … Continue reading
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Needful things #1 – 4
Things you didn’t know you needed in a restaurant, #1: an extra case of every service piece – at least 4 types of glass, 2 types of cup, and 9 different dishes #2: a place to put all those extra … Continue reading