So we have been so busy we don't know which end is up. After our extremely busy (and secret) weekend last week we had to get ready for the fabric shows. So we drag ourselves out and jump in a cab to go to the Jacob Javits Convention Center. We get out and walk inside. And we notice something strange.All the signs. Hasbro. Mattel. Fischer Price. Super Mario. HOLY SHIT IT"S THE TOY FAIR!!!!!
Our show is this weekend. We had no idea.
So what could you do. We went in. Maybe we could find something good for the store. But it was a bust. I mean they had a lot of cool toys but the minimum's were too high and we don't have the space. So I call my car service guy and he happens to be right outside because he dropped someone off a few minutes before. We go out and jump in the car and go home to Brooklyn.
Since it was Valentines Day we decided to take a walk and have dinner. We get dropped off on Atlantic Avenue and walk into a few antique shops to scout out some furniture for the store. We never buy conventional display cases. We use antique furniture like dressers and bureaus and what not. We walk along until we get to our new favorite restaurant: Downtown Atlantic.
Now Downtown Atlantic is owned by a husband and wife team, Kurt and Fran. Like us they work together everyday. Fran is the baker and she make some great cupcakes let me tell you. Kurt runs the restaurant. We were there very early because of the screw up and were able to get in without a reservation which was great. They had a great price fix menu for Valentines Day and the wines are great and quite inexpensive. We even had a chance to really get to meet and talk to the owners which is what I always like to do. It seems like a great place.
And it saved my ass. It totally salvaged Valentines Day.
11 comments:
What's with the cupcake craze? Everytime I open the NY Post there's a story about some fab cupcake den that's opened in Williamsburg or Greenpoint or wherever the hippies are invading. I guess they're addicted to the sugar rush.
These are really great cupcakes though.
They offered them a chance to appear on cupcake wars but he turned it down.
Just a guy running a good business on his own terms. I always go out of my way to support that.
"We never buy conventional display cases. We use antique furniture like dressers and bureaus and what not."
Then hopefully you bought up that glass case, sans boat, one down?
It's perfect to display accessories AND cupcakes.
Gotta think BIG, Troop.
Ricpic? Two-bite cupcakes are, in fact, creating a "sugary gold rush".
Cuppy Cake Boutiques aren't required to post cost per pound. For that matter, nor are they required to post an ingredient list or calorie count, coupled with % of sugar, saturated fats or their carbohydrate index.
It's a dangerous market! Fraught with consequences... and sad tales of ignorance.
"Sugar" is one POWERFUL drug.
Motivator?
Not NEARLY enough gold ingots to go around, so you tell me?
Who wants a little sugar?
Sugar" is one POWERFUL drug.
Motivator?
Not NEARLY enough gold ingots to go around, so you tell me?
Who wants a little sugar?
The MamaM considers Penny to be an unconventional case: a combination dresser, bureau, and what-not, sans boat and suited to the display of accessories AND cupcakes.
hey my friend...whatever the big secret thing is I hope it works out super for you.
your misses deserves a lot after having to put up with you for all these years...and your daughter looks terrific and i'm glad she takes after her and not your ugly old puss.
hdhouse - I notice you still have not learned to write in English. Fascinating.
and yet another comment by Captain Insano.
Yes, but for whatever reason, Trooper likes you, so keep on commenting.
Captain Insano leaves yet another mark.
hdhouse cannot be stopped - he is a broken, yet illiterate record beloved by all who read his wit and wisdom. Spew on, Opus One Media - you are as smart as you are honest.
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