Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
newper wrote:
http://chicago.eater.com/archives/2013/04/12/alpana-singh-talks-changes-at-the-boarding-house.php
Couldn't find my original thread on this, but I went with the missus a few months ago, and it was just OK. The atmosphere was awesome, but the food left me a little flat. I'm interested to try it again under a new chef. That takes some guts to fire a guy within the first year, but honestly, the food wasn't really up to the level they were looking for. The dessert was great, but the rest was just OK.
I think Alpana used her name and fame to build something bigger than she could handle first time out. It looks like she bit off more than she can chew. She should have started smaller. She's one of Melman's friends, not one of his kids.
100% agree!
Went there and wasnt impressed with everything. Yeah, cool bottles hanging, but if you use all your money and energy on the cool bottles everything else sucks!
You want to make your name on what you do at a place, not who you are.
Running an establishment is hard hard work. Have done it three times in my life. Each time it was part of investment of the building, basically buying a piece of crap and making it all worth something, but I worked no less than 80 hours on the shortest week, usually over 100.