We answered the question "When will you open?" with "Soon." We believed that. We discussed likes and dislikes and the changing neighborhood. Two temporary restaurants, a couple of invitations to the James Beard House to prepare dinner, three countries, and a host of American cities later we stood outside on Saturday mornings and shook hands. We’ve met our neighbors and told them our story, the story about two people who come to food and hospitality from very different backgrounds and meet in the middle over the love of sharing, storytelling, and technical proficiency all at once.Įight months ago we potted herbs and flowers into some old wine crates that I had packed up my books and tools in the day I walked out of my regular job for the last time, almost exactly a year prior. Talking about what motivates two people to open a new restaurant when there are already plenty of perfectly good - and a number of absolutely great - ones nearby. We’ve spent a lot of time this year talking about the past and how we got to where we are. Whoever he is, we expect we’ll keep him around, at least in spirit. Katrina tracked down the artist who explained he was a representation of the people he used to see on the street, running for the bus. We’d been fed a rumor that he might be a former employee. There is a fading wheat paste mural of a coffee-drinking man on our back door. A few prominent pendant and globe light fixtures left behind will compliment the additional warehouse style and schoolhouse glass pieces we’ve added.
Remnants of those floors have been repurposed into a lightbox-style sign, and a few more will find their way into menu design. The hardwood floors which run throughout, stained with a custom blend by Katrina. There is this counter, painted to match the framing supporting our solid slab redwood service counters.
We preserved a number of elements from that shop, although they’ve each been refinished and made our own. This countertop was here in the space’s former incarnation as a neighborhood favorite coffee shop. A view like the one from these windows, we’ve been chasing for a long time. It was an option from the beginning, but while we kept the specific location flexible, we weren’t flexible about the target area being right here in our own neighborhood. This space itself was barely an idea when we first started planning. Juliet is located at 257 Washington St., just outside the busy center of the square. Another countless number use this intersection on their commute to work, school, or play. Fifteen thousand people live within a half mile. It looks out over Union Square, a bus stop, and the high traffic corner of a neighborhood in flux that is Washington and Webster, where commuters from Charlestown, Cambridge, Boston, and beyond all come together in Somerville and are forced to get a look at our storefront before continuing on to wherever they are going.Ībout a year ago we started to brainstorm a specific business plan with these corners in mind. I am writing from a countertop placed at bar height in the front windows. Most of it was installed over the weekend with a few finishing touches yesterday. The paints, stains, and other finishes are inviting and warm. Today, about fourteen weeks after beginning, Juliet looks more like a restaurant than a construction site. I am writing this seventh installment of On The House from inside Juliet for the first time. If I made a beginning there would never be an end to them." -Rudyard Kipling
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"Because the Jungle is full of such tales.
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