Terribly sad. So many fond memories.
Yes. Our thread on it was begun by you, and the last substantive post there was also yours:
Thank you so much @fooddabbler for linking me to that blast from the past. I kind of enjoyed it all over again while being even sadder about their departure from dining in options. It was great while it lasted and I suppose the lesson for all of us, as we have learned so many times before, is that nothing is forever.
Yes, that thread is quite a trip down memory lane (more so by its early reference to StripT’s).
As @Amandarama has memorably and brilliantly said just above, “I am sadness.”
I bought salmon nigiri as part of takout (Umi) and put red miso and caramelized shallots on it at home in memoriam.
Yours is the last meal report on that thread. Ominously from Feb 2020. Surely there was discussion of what was on our doorstep, but none of us could have ever imagined the impact.
Truer words…
After that post I spent the following two weeks eating my weight in tacos in Tucson AZ and then boom.
This happened at the start of the year, and is neither a closing nor an opening rather (hopefuly) a continuing. Ihsan and Valerie have sold their three Formaggio Kitchen stores to their long time manager Julia Hallman. That’s probably the best possible outcome for those of us who want FK to continue its present high form for a long time to come. Julia has excellent taste and very high standards.
Just saw a piece on the PBS News Hour
on Comfort Kitchen
which apparently opened to much buzz early this year:
Anybody been?
See
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