Thursday, October 7, 2010

Crown Heights:Integrating a neighborhood with a restaurant


New York Times

“IS HE COMING BACK?” Clara Santos Perez was peering out the windows and across the street, where an imposing man in black stood, his face turned in her direction.
Was he watching? Waiting? Planning to confront her anew? Perez wondered aloud about all of this, wrung her hands and paced. In her agitation and dread she more closely resembled a criminal on the lam than what she really was: a restaurant manager rattled by an unusually troubling customer complaint.
It was a Sunday in late summer, and most of the night had gone smoothly. From 6 p.m. on, almost all of the 45 or so seats in the main dining room of Basil Pizza & Wine Bar were filled, primarily with its core clientele of Hasidic Jews from the restaurant’s neighborhood in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Their conversation and a soundtrack of merry classical music combined to form a pleasant din. [...]

1 comment :

  1. This is sick.

    First see how even the shiksa manager is made to wear a Meshichist badge.

    The BT who conceived the concept of Basil restaurant is purposely trying to attract Crown Heights shvartzas & hipsters who dress prust to hang out by the full scale alcoholic bar. When Rabbi Levy gets complaints about the sviva, he just comes down & saunters around the place for 5 minutes to be mistakel himself.

    They PURPOSELY hire OPENLY GAY waiters who tell customers about their boyfriends to show they are "diverse" and "with the times".

    When Lubavitcher yeshivaleit have been moyche outside, the restaurant calls the cops on them.

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