As we have said many
times before,
we prefer to wait at least 4 months after a restaurant is open to give it a
chance to settle in. Earlier than that is unfair to both the restaurant and
the reader for us to pass judgment. The energy and skill of Fabio and
Jacopo may have enabled them to overcome classic new restaurant shortcomings
such as personnel turnover, food delivery, quality failures and kitchen
breakdowns. At least that is what they tell us.
But with this success there
have been occasional glitches, especially at peak hours. One time, a basic
minestrone was heavily oversalted. Another time, Osso Buco which braises for
hours, had braised a bit too long and was dry, rather than moist. Café
Firenze immediately and pleasantly recognized and corrected the problems.
That is a good sign.
However if you really
want to get the best that Café Firenze offers, I suggest you try it midweek
or for lunch. On Friday and Saturday there can be long waits for tables and
the food comes out of the kitchen slowly. They have announced that they
plan to convert some space in the under utilized deli into additional
seating to reduce wait time. But their remarkable success will
continue to put tremendous pressure on that very active kitchen.
As they say in all
endeavors worldwide. “There is no such thing as a free lunch”
Café
Firenze-Sophisticated Italian Fare-Dry Aged Steak
563 West Los Angeles Avenue,
Moorpark 805-532-0048 Most Credit Cards
Ample Shopping Center Parkng. Reservations are Essential
Open 7 Days for Lunch and Dinner
.
Frankly Noted
Earn 12
Free Gourmet Dinners for 2 For a Year
Save The
Environment
Just Go Green
It took a while but the truth is
finally out.
Many of those bottles of
water that you pay $.50 to $! for are merely tap water that have been
filtered a little bit. So as you always really knew, you are
really paying a very big premium for those flashy (non reusable)
bottles
that hold ordinary water just to
look trendy. Why bother with little things like that when you already have
proven your upscale trendiness with your $200 IPOD , your $500 IPHONE,
your $800 Coach purse, your $1,000 Mont Blanc Pen or your now apparently
unsafe $75,000 BMW.
So this finally may be the nail
in the coffin of the "luxe"
fashionable water industry since it follows those environmental
reports that the billions and billions of non reusable non-recycleable
plastic bottles going into our landfills have reached crisis proportions.
Never missing an entrepreneurial
opportunity, American Free Enterprise is offering a further incentive.
Brita the filter kings are combining with an upscale
container maker to offer a high quality
"Green" water bottle to go with Brita's Filter
System. For a few bucks over $20 at Costco you get it all to
filter your own water for a few months plus the drinking utensil for water.
For $20 you can go for a stainless steel container that will separate you
from the peasants.
A bonus is that you can then also
filter your tap water for dramatically better coffee
$3 Brita Replacement Filters last
about a month for average serious water consumers. You don't need a math
degree from Caltech to calculate that you and your partner can save about
$120 a month, while improving your coffee and the environment.
That gets you into places like Tuscany, Mandevilla, Mediterraneo, Rustico
and Cafe Provencal without a dent in your credit card...,
if you know how to order the wine.
You'll have all that cash in your pocket from that "bottled tap water".
Be the
First to Do it in Your Neighborhood!
Do it Now !
(Think About
How Environmentally Superior You'll Feel)
