04/16/2026
After more than six years, Alex is stepping away from her role as Director of Nightshade Noodle Bar. Her last day of service with us will be Sunday, April 26th ❤️
Alex has been a force in this restaurant since she stepped foot in it. Her hospitality, presence, intuition, discipline, and the way she made people feel will forever be part of NNB. Her standards are written into the walls. Her legacy will stay with us, and it will continue to shape the way service evolves in the years ahead.
I am deeply grateful for Alex, for her years here, and for the mark she leaves behind. What she gave to this restaurant mattered. It will always matter.
I hope many of you will book with us over the coming weeks to help send her off with the love and appreciation she deserves!!
On a personal level, there is no way for me to separate this restaurant from the life we built around it together. To do this work at this level is already demanding. To do it while sharing a life, an home, and the full weight of the restaurant day in and day out takes a rare kind of partnership. I will always be proud of what we managed to build together, especially as two strong, stubborn, alpha women in a small space together, leading with conviction in an industry that does not always make that easy.
SO! All that being said, for those who know us, we are not breaking up, nothing is wrong, everything is great. It is simply time for a new era, for both of us. 😘 Alexandra Caruso
Please join me in thanking her for everything she brought to Nightshade Noodle Bar over these past six years, and in wishing her the very best in whatever comes next ❤️❤️ -RM
