Permit Purgatory
If you are going to open a food and beverage business, I have some advice for you. Your patience is going to get a serious workout. Learn how to meditate and practice…
If you are going to open a food and beverage business, I have some advice for you. Your patience is going to get a serious workout. Learn how to meditate and practice…
One of the most fun parts of this process has been finding quirky and unusual items to display in the room. My creative and awesome pal Robyn turned me on…
Gather around children, today we’re going to talk about GREASE TRAPS. Exciting, right? This requirement for new restaurants in our area has been the bane of our existence for several months…
With the main part of the room largely finished, we turned our attention to the bathrooms and the bar set up. We have A LOT that needs to happen behind…
This concept for the Listening Room at 443 has definitely evolved over the past year. We started out planning to be an event space for live acoustic music, community events and…
Along the way, we’ve been picking up some of the equipment we’re going to need. We’ve been visiting Kammar’s Restaurant Equipment on Wolf Street every once in a while to see if anything…
Between our lean start-up budget and the fact that I’ve always been an avid DIY-er, it was a given that we would be DIY-ing as many things as we could in this…
While the boys were doing the grunt work, I was eyeing the expanse of wall space I needed to decorate. I have to admit, it was a little intimidating. The room…
I have always said that the bathrooms at 443 look like a gas station in a third world country. Not CBGB bad, but still pretty sad and gross. The teeny-tiny…
So…the not-so-fun work of cleaning, painting and repairing the building was happening. The substantially more fun work of decorating the room was chugging along.The part we were ignoring somewhat was dealing…