Hang in there, Amy! I was there on Friday night, and everything went swimmingly. I was pretty amazed that I managed to get an 8 p.m. reservation by calling up just a few hours ahead. You guys are doing a great job of feeding what looks like the entire neighborhood every night. Keep it up.

Sometimes all it takes is one HUGE neighborhood jerk to make you forget their are lots of non-jerky neighborhood folk. I think it’s important for the non-jerks, such as Rose, to make themselves known in order to make the jerky-jerks more tolerable (not that they should be tolerated…)

I had a lovely Sunday Brunch, by the way, and had almost NO wait time

I agree… close on Mondays or Tuesdays. We can wait. But wait, why am i waiting?! I haven’t tried this great new addition to the neighborhood yet — I was thinking of waiting out the “early rush” but I’m wondering if it will actually slow down? Based on the buzz, sounds like there’s a good chance it won’t!

Don’t forget to rest. Or maybe, have an “easy menu” day or two? If there is such a thing.

We went on Friday night. The food was delicious, but it is true that the restaurant is still working out a lot of kinks. Long waits on our orders (and to order in the first place), wrong dishes coming to the table, etc. But really nice service, and all to be expected from a restaurant’s first week. Of course, everything was delicious! (Particularly recommend the vegetables in green curry & any of the ice creams…)
As we left, we definitely planned to be back after a few weeks when the kinks get ironed out, as they undoubtedly will. I am surprised anyone was acting rude about the issues – they shouldn’t go to a restaurant’s first open week if they can’t deal with a little imperfection and delay.

What happened? Can someone put into context what was the incident that made this woman write the letter?

That stinks that people have been rude. I’m sorry to hear it.
I enjoyed my meal on Friday very much.
Hope to have you around for a long time to come.

Thank you! Thank you! We do love this neighborhood and all the wonderful people we have been meeting ever since we started construction of Purple Yam. Romy and I totally appreciate these sweet comments. Someone asked for a context. Actually after 13 1/2 years of running Cendrillon in SoHo, I am no wimp in handling unpleasant encounters with diners. The nasty responses from people who could not get reservations were stressful but tolerable. But when this elderly gentleman on Sunday brunch indignantly told me that I had no right to open the restaurant because we were so disorganized, I just lost it. When I apologized and explained to him it was our first brunch, he brushed it aside and said it was no excuse. I can take constructive criticism which we need, but to tell me that I should not have opened was beyond the pale.

Well, now you have it. As you sweet folks have said, these people are few and do not represent the wonderful and lovable new friends we are making on a daily basis.

Ironically, last night (Monday night) was the nicest service we have ever had. Everything ran smoothly and the people were absolutely fantastic. We are beefing up on kitchen and management, so I think we will continue to do Mondays and we can take our day off, too (eventually….).

We are back totally energized and psyched because of you. LOVE DITMAS PARK!!!!

go rose!

We still have not eaten here (didn’t want to wait at 9pm Friday night) so we settled for pizza, but we may have ordered the first gift certificate, the night they opened.

We waited close to half an hour and I began to think they had forgot about us. We were shocked when someone emerged with a beautifully hand-drawn card which made the perfect gift for the recipient. A personal touch on a gift certificate, I can;t wait to see how much attention has been paid to the food.