03/30/2025
Over the past few days, we have heard from so many of you expressing emotions of disappointment and sadness at the news of our closing. To say thank you seems insufficient. We cannot adequately express our appreciation for your friendship, kindness, and patronage over the past 20 months. We have been blessed by you and have forged some, what we hope will be, lasting friendships. We hope that our presence in your lives has been a positive experience, a source of joy, and that our little family restaurant has been a respite for you. We, more than anyone of you, wish this was not arrivederci. We also acknowledge that there were occasions where we missed the mark - we regret each one of those moments and we apologize. What we can say with certainty is that whenever we heard about an issue we did everything we could in the moment to make it right for that. We are proud of ourselves. Still, there are people who are critical and have a different opinion - which is their right, and have made comments that are churlish and even childish. To those individuals, we share these words from President Theodore Roosevelt.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910.
Here are some photos from where we started to today.
