https://www.saltshaker.net/20050628/farewell-212 Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:39:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050628/farewell-212#comment-241872 Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:55:51 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050628/farewell-212#comment-241872 […] (didn’t they used to be? or maybe it was just weekend brunch); and from there headed towards Five Points (gotta review them one of these trips), and suddenly spotted the Great Jones Cafe, at 54 Great […]

]]> https://www.saltshaker.net/20050628/farewell-212#comment-113 Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:14:57 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050628/farewell-212#comment-113 […] New York City – Back in one of my first posts on this blog I mentioned the restaurant Five Points as one of my favorites, and one of the places I was going to miss in leaving New York. Marc, Vicki, and Chris have gone on to open their second restaurant in the city. Personally, being an advocate of a modicum of sanity, I thought they were nuts. I know what they went through opening the first place and suriving to make it the first rate place that it has become. To voluntarily put themselves through all that again seemed simply insane. But then, for those of us who’ve worked in the restaurant world, insanity is a way of life. […]

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