What's up with Manzanita Restaurant ? (Organic Cafe)

[Guest guest]

Does anybody know what is happening with this place ???

 

Two weeks ago, on the scheduled opening date, I went by there.

The " Manzanita " restaurant was not open for business, but they

served some free food, and told me that they would really open in

two weeks, which is today. They promised that lunches would continue

much as before, with Tenzin cooking from Monday to Friday. The

dinner menu was going to be different, more like a regular

restaurant, with different organic vegan selections.

 

They had removed the oven from the kitchen, so baked goods were not

going to be offered. This decision seemed odd to me, as ovens are

pretty useful in restaurants.

 

This morning, I looked in the window and saw an empty room, no

tables or chairs inside. The website address is not active, and

nobody answers the telephone.

 

If any of you know somebody on the inside, would you please post

news to this forum?

 

 

Yours in veggie-ism,

 

Jon Spear

 

 

 

 

 

 

, " jdspear9 " <jdspear@a...> wrote:

> Tonight (Friday Dec 12), I had my last dinner and ate my last

> blueberry almond jewel cookie from the Organic Cafe...

>

> At the counter, there were some flyers announcing the planned

opening

> of the new restaurant at the same location. The new name of the

> place will be " Manzanita, " and the restaurant owner is the

landlord's

> wife.

>

>

>

> Here are the words from the announcement:

>

> ***************************************************

>

> Manzanita

>

> is the name of the new restaurant (*) that will open at this same

> address, 1050 - 40th Street, Oakland, on Wednesday, January 7,

2004.

> Our telephone: 985-8386

>

> Our bill of fare will include macrobiotic and vegan cuisine. We

hope

> that we'll be able to give you more choices, more comfort, more

> atmosphere!

>

> * - The Manzanita has no business connection with the

> predecessor " Organic Cafe " , even though many of the workers from

the

> now-defunct Organic Cafe are going to help us with the new

> restaurant. Masha French, the new owner of Manzanita, ded buy much

of

> the equipment, stock, and furnishings from the old Organic Cafe,

but

> she did not buy either the name, the reputation, the good will, or

> any part of the business entity known as the " Organic Cafe " .

>

> [For up-to-date information, please visit our website

> <www.manzanitarestaurant.com>]

>

> ********************************************************

>

> (end of flyer)

>

> Crawdad has not yet activated the website. Check it later.

[Guest guest]

To Jon Spear and others who may want to know

when the new MANZANITA restaurant will open

 

jdspear9 wrote:

Does anybody

know what is happening with this place ???

 

Two weeks ago, on the scheduled opening date, I went by there.

The "Manzanita" restaurant was not open for business, but they

served some free food, and told me that they would really open in

two weeks, which is today.

Well, we didn't make it by today:

Complications with satisfying Building-Department-demanded Seismic

Strengthening,

as well as rigorous Health Department requirements for new restaurants, have

been

simply overwhelming --- and have most regrettably forced us to once again

put off

the Manzanita’s opening date.

 

Our determination to develop and grow independently of the former

Organic Cafe

(which was at this location for 20 years) has doubtless cost us dearly. But

we have

been intent on doing things right and in conformance with all applicable

laws and

regulations -- as a result, our resources have been badly strained.

 

 

BUT OPEN WE WILL! It's just going to take us longer: While at the moment

we can

not pinpoint a new opening date, we estimate it will be about 4 to 5 weeks

from now.

For precise information, please watch our website at www.manzanitarestaurant.com

OR check for specific information per VoiceMail recordings on our new telephone

(510-985-8386). We will also publish opening announcements in the East Bay

Express

as well as in the San Francsico Bay Guardian. And of course we'll also put

an

announcement here in the forum.

 

They promised

that lunches would continue

much as before, with Tenzin cooking from Monday to Friday.

That is true - we will indeed have the Tibetan crew: they are dearly loved

by all of us!

 

The dinner menu was going to be different, more like a regular

restaurant, with different organic vegan selections.

And probably even a menu. We'll try for more variety than the "Organic Cafe"

ever had.

 

They had removed the oven from the kitchen, ...

Only so that we could pour a "Santa Fe Red" concrete topping so as to create

an evener

and more attractive restaurant & kitchen floor (the old floor of the

"Organic Cafe" was

wretched). By the way, there are now THREE ovens in our kitchen (two new

ones).

so baked goods

were not going to be offered.

That's a wrong conclusion: they will indeed be offered, but not just yet,

not just yet . . .

This morning,

I looked in the window and saw an empty room, no

tables or chairs inside.

The tables and chairs are against the east wall so that we could rework,

reseal the floor.

The website

address is not active, and

nobody answers the telephone.

You're right, and we apologize. We were trying so furiously to indeed open

by Jan. 21

that we quite failed to take care of these essentials. Thanks therefore

for properly stirring

us to action: we're now taking steps to get both the website and telephone

functioning.

 

---George F. French

 

(whose wife Maria is the actual owner;

George is really just her errand boy)

 

 

 

, "jdspear9" <jdspear@a...> wrote:

> Tonight (Friday Dec 12), I had my last dinner and ate my last

> blueberry almond jewel cookie from the Organic Cafe...

>

> At the counter, there were some flyers announcing

the planned

> opening of the new restaurant at the same location.

The new name of the

> place will be "Manzanita," and the restaurant owner is the

landlord's wife.

>

>

>

> Here are the words from the announcement:

>

> ***************************************************

>

> Manzanita

>

> is the name of the new restaurant (*) that will open at this same

> address, 1050 - 40th Street, Oakland, on Wednesday, January 7,

2004.

> Our telephone: 985-8386

>

> Our bill of fare will include macrobiotic and vegan cuisine. We

hope

> that we'll be able to give you more choices, more comfort, more

> atmosphere!

>

> * - The Manzanita has no business connection with the

> predecessor "Organic Cafe", even though many of the workers from

the

> now-defunct Organic Cafe are going to help us with the new

> restaurant. Masha French, the new owner of Manzanita, ded buy much

 

of

> the equipment, stock, and furnishings from the old Organic Cafe,

but

> she did not buy either the name, the reputation, the good will, or

 

> any part of the business entity known as the "Organic Cafe".

>

> [For up-to-date information, please visit our website

> <www.manzanitarestaurant.com>]

>

> ********************************************************

>

> (end of flyer)

>

> Crawdad has not yet activated the website. Check it later.

 

 

 

 

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