Community Bistro

Life wouldn’t be exciting unless we dreamt big. Specifically, in our second careers we hope we’re lucky enough to do the following:

1. Wear big pants,
2. Live at work,
3. Sleep at work,
4. Pull 16-20 hour days…
5. …7 days a week…
6. …363 days out of the year (we’ll take our birthdays off),
7. Flex our phone plans (required for calling in favors),
8. Recruit cheap labor (family, you’re on notice),
9. Become cheap bastards, (not hard, we already are),
10. And, make nice with patrons.

On a more positive note, the following is a real-time list of what we’re trying to achieve:

1. Land. Not a lot, but enough for shrubbery, vines, dirt and gravel.
2. Building. We’ll need a contractor to help us get into a space – maybe two-story, so we can live upstairs (and reduce our carbon footprint).
3. Garden dining space. We’re lucky enough to enjoy meals in the backyard about 11 months out of the year. Peeps at the Bistro should have the same luxury.
4. Underground wine cellar. Kind of like the one we drank in under Chauteauneuf-du-Pape.
5. Wood-burning oven. Cozy addition to your garden table, yes? Also doubles up as 1) vessel to heat up your appetizer pizza, and 2) romantic back-drop to your first-date dinner.
6. Vegetable boxes. It’d be killer, just KILLER, if we could plant some veggies, then harvest and cook them, and serve it right back to you over dinner.
7. Herbs. Well, duh. Of course, we’d landscape entirely with herbs.
8. Poultry farm. OK, this is pushing it. But chickens roaming nearby to supply us with farm-fresh eggs? Sign us up.
9. Chefs. We want lots of them, working together, and working visibly. Now accepting reservations for seats near the open kitchen.
10. Artwork. We hang them, you buy them.
11. Pottery / ceramics. We supply them, you eat out of them.
12. Baby grand piano. We’ll play it. Or you play it. Knock yourself out.
13. Pets. Yes. We employ Britta the Weimaraner as a hostess. (See # 8 above.) Bring your buddy.
14. Classroom. Sure. Let’s learn how to make a gazpacho together with goods from outside the window. Then we’ll break out some wine and share a whole meal together out back. Amongst the wood-burning oven, herbs and vegetable garden…
15. Wheelbarrow. We’ll have one right out front. Feel free to pick up someone’s spare garden tomatoes for dinner, as long as you donate something, too.

Someday, we’ll make this happen. Once we do, we can’t wait to meet you.

[K] & |b|