Thoughts!!! [on a seafood restaurant]

Why do you care about our opinion? According to you, we're just a bunch of whiners. Surely you don't need our input for your new, service-based endeavor.

I'd love a good seafood place closer and cheaper than Blue Ribbon. (Which I am going to tomorrow, so don't consider this even the slightest bit of hate for Blue Ribbon.)

laura wrote: How about a Whine and Cheese Bar instead?

I happen to be on a see food diet myself

dingleberry wrote: hahahah!!!!Yeah try going to Pena's to buy a bag of cheesy puff's with a credit card!!!
hahahahahah,anyhow i am serious about what you guys think..

I'm not entirely sure why you think I go prancing around everywhere trying to purchase with my card the least expensive items I can find. Hell, you've even directed me to India.

My credit card issue had to do with a business that was requiring a minimum, which is a violation of their contract.

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My beef with YOU is that when you first entered into these forums you tried to instigate a flame riot (for which you were warned) - in the process, calling myself and others, whiners, babies, etc. Now you want our opinion?

Here's my opinion: if you run a restaurant the way I think someone like you would run it, don't even bother.

If you're going to run it well (great food, great SERVICE, no attitude, etc.), then it will be a welcome addition to the neighborhood.

what is a "customer like me"?

NO PERSONAL ATTACKS. Both of yas. Cut it out.

I could go for a place with whole belly fried clams. Serve that and I'll put your kids through college.

Like they do in Kennebunk, Maine, not Boston, Massachusetts. The whole clam and nothing but the clam. Softshell clams.

I'd be into a raw bar that was affordable. By this I mean you could eat and have a drink for $20. That would rule. I hope you will take cash (I destroyed all my credit cards).

We are so there!

Subject: Re: Thoughts!!!

dingleberry wrote: I am thinking of opening a Seafood restaurant on Vanderbilt, including raw oyster bar, all kinds of Fried fish, something completely different from the other seafood place on Vanderbilt.

so after starting a thread trashing bob law's, this is what you're really up to.

this neighborhood is too small to try to win business by attacking a would-be competitor. many residents, for example, have been avoiding shane's since their anti-tom's campaign left a bad taste in our mouths. bob law's is an established restaurant that many people love.

if you open a place with good food, good service and reasonable prices, they'll speak for themselves. to co-opt someone else's slogan, develop, don't destroy.

i would love to see raw bar at any price point in ph and would help idlewild with your kids' tuition, if this were to manifest.
suggestions? full raw bar at whatever it costs to provide excellent mollusks, but hopefully less $ than blue rib. cheaper sea stuff such as steamers and fish sammies and fried seafood and salads to fill us up. quiet jazzy-vibe full bar and wine. more neighborhoody than stylish. wifi. yes, this is my personal fantasy ph establishment, i admit.