Day Off!

Yup---that's me in my robe, sipping coffee from a mug from my kitchen cabinet & checking my e-mails at 7:45am. Uh-huh, that's where you'll find me all day today. Oh...I may change it up a bit. Perhaps I'll switch to an icy-cool alcoholic beverage. If I'm super ambitious, I may throw on a pair of George Castanza (sp?) type pants (anything with elastic in the waistband). Other than that, however, this is what my day will look like. Perfection.

It's my first day off since mid-June (the 18th of June when my lovely niece, Stephenie graduated, to be exact). Unfortunately, Richard had to go into the bakery for a few hours today to put together the wholesale bread delivery and to get the sign painter all set up for his day of FINALLY painting the name "The Village Bakery and Cafe" on the outside of our building. Now we won't be a secret club that people sort of wander into saying "are you guys open for business??" Hallelujah.

If anyone is still out there and is still wondering: things have been chugging along nicely for us. We hired a great new chef---one who shares our vision for the place and who has been working hard to get things up to speed. We have a small menu, but everything on it (I think) is delicious. Since the signage is going up, we're going to be actively trying to get people in through the doors (as opposed to when we first started----I shuttered a few times when people would look at the old menu that we inherited from the previous owner).

For any of you who are in the L.A. area: please come in and try us out this coming weekend (or tell your friends to stop in). Our address is 3119 Los Feliz Blvd. L.A. 90039. Our phone is 323.662.8600. Website will be going up soon. Really.

I'll post a picture of our new signage as soon as it's finished. For now, though, I have to grab another cup of Joe from my own kitchen! and begin puttering....