Have not been getting a lot of positive feedback on the name:  le singe et le violon contreplaqué Which I think is perfect. I do admit though that it is difficult to google. My second choice for a name for the place is: Ba. It has a lot of meaning to me, but mostly it is an Indochinese slang word. Tell you all about it when you come in. If you have an association with this word please le me know and I will add it to the growing list of meanings. Bon appetité, bad attitude, barium, Buenos Aires, etc.

Ba is pretty googleiscous though. I will be counting on the Yelpers, and Urban Spooners soon enough. This is the city where a chef got famous when he opened a restaurant with an unlisted phone number. Oh well. Beginning to think this will not be my last restaurant.

Trying to put together a building team and it is frustrating. Not sure what the status of my space is. It has always been a bakery and sometime in the 70’s it was a restaurant with a juke box, but I cannot find any official record of that in the cities files. Every building record I have found says bakery, retail. I am hoping that is enough to allow me to just remodel” as opposed to converting the place into a new restaurant. It could be the difference of tens of thousands of dollars in permit fees and architectural services.