Pop-up restaurants are a great success in London
Are they happening in Paris.
Is there anything to stop them o pening in your area?
Would there be any legal inpediments?
By the way I am intrigued by Voulez vous diner so I will phone them.
The tax side of this concept would be interesting.
in the morn....off to lunch today....funny ...just around the corner to where David lives...
Drinking glasses....sorry no one really needs drinking classes.
I agree with you.
But you could, infact if you really wanted to open a restaurant.
However you can not offer great food at a low price....SIMPLE
food yes....but that has to be done on turnover...skill....skill and a
little luck.
The heating bills etc are sky high and the your energy output is huge.
Take into concideration the amount of drinking classes, amuse bouche dishes and the cutlery and plates needing washing after 4 COURSES.
It is an elaberate concideration which most clients do not understand.
Not for the feint hearted .
Well David re Brake brothers ....NEVER used them but so many restaurants are
really lazy about cooking and they buy everything in from Metro or maybe brake
bros. So many places use frozen chips to match the meat or fish on the plate.
But when we talk about Restaurants lets talk about real ones.
There is an art to running a restaurant.
That art form is never found in a fool.
Carol yes elderflower cordial is great and easy to make and
ginger and lemon just perfect for the winter served hot with a little
honey to pacify colds.
Belvoir cordials are a little treat but they have stopped their rhubarb and ginger
and their passion fruit and mango....will make the rhubarb one.
A little job for you James if you feel up to it...
Cynthia life is one big risk.
i am just not sure how it is possible but a pop up is temporary.
That would begreat ....a few months running a restaurant would be fun?
But the PR etc ahead of time has to come into the planning.
The liscencing laws in uk changed and each person holds a personal liscence
which is achieved by taking a small exam.
But in uk the planning dept of each borough council plays god and to get change of use from an office to a restaurant or shop to restaurant can depend on how powerful you
are.So legally you can not open your front door on a sat night at 7 and welcome paying guests. And what about the revenue. The five shillings profit?
So there we are...
Almost where is the reporter? Samantha Brick....A great story for her ....uncovering the truth about Rachel Khoo and the pop up....is it a bubble?
Barbara I have no idea. I simply report what I read in the local press. Given the advances that Brake Bros. are making in France I sometimes wonder if any restaurateurs can cook.
Almost complete fiction I fear. Rachel's little Paris kitchen was as gussied up as Jamie Oiver's pad in London. Still the recipes were good and Miss Khoo was in Gironde in the spring doing a photoshoot for her latest book due out for Christmas.
Pop-up kitchen? Try this www.rachelkhoo.com . You must be able to start one in France... Rachel ran her's from a tiny one room flat in Paris. Mind you it was for a BBC programme (Rachel's Little Paris Kitchen) so prap's she had special permission.
Ah yes.
However not so many restaurants enjoy success.
And by success I mean....provide superb cuisine and accolades to match...
Pay their taxes and then sell the buisness at the right moment .....paying
more taxes and escaping London.
If I was younger I would open a restaurant here but working 16 hours a day
and training staff is history.
Who is this restauranter from Libourne?
Can he or she cook?
I only quote what a restaurateur from Libourne said recently in "Sud-Ouest"
Any fool can open a restaurant?
But a fool can not make it work.
So is France a nation of fools ?
It seems most unlikely. However given that you have to be qualified and licenced to open a hairdressers in France whereas at present any fool can open a restaurant it may well happen.
That was great Veronique.
Keith yes poped up or pop up as long as we can giggle....I will not change.
Barbara this might amuse you - I once had a biggish lunch party for a varied mob of friends whose only thing in common apart from being my friends was desire to eat curry. One Sunday I made a couple of different curries plus dhal and the usual aloo gobi, mutter paneer, palak, nan, raita etc -
anyway just as we were getting to the end of it & feeling a bit bloated from stuffing ourselves there was a knock at a window, so I waddled off to see - & found 2 people asking me if I was still serving. So I explained I wasn't actually a restaurant to which they said oh yes I was they could tell and anyway if I wasn't a restaurant what were all these people doing (!?) and look! (as they sidled round the door edging me out of the way) there are people still eating!!! Why can't WE have some food?
I almost invited them in out of pity & curiosity but there were just scrapings left so I said no I'm afraid this really is NOT a restaurant, which my guests had to confirm (! can you imagine!!) so they stumped away muttering about not getting the service nowadays & what were they going to do now....
But not the ones in London....as far as I know.
They are temp restaurants.
But if you have it in your home and charge people....
If we poped up so to speak it would be with St Emilion with the festival project or
just by the river in the next village.
Popping -up appeals to me.
Pop up helps the chef who has a small budget to start his or her restaurant and it is usually
a temporary project.
Firstly yes I do want to see them on our map.
Why not?
A few successful restaurants would be great.
Great for the operator and everyone else.
No a pop up restaurant is not a cheap meal in someone's home so please google....
if you wish.
My present cleints were chatting with me about them and their son is a chef in one.
I think that it plays monopoly with the law but does nothing to harm anyone.
Could be great for the tourists too.
Yes, of course I want to see France flirting with flaboyance once more even in the
countryside.
outside world ... where is that ? Do you have a map please ;0)
I am also a country bumkin ....if living in the country and enjoying the life style offers me the title.
But I keep in touch with outside ...or inside world.
Google pop up restaurants if the mood takes you.
Oh god Im such a country bumkin....... ;0(
What is a pop up resturant ? sounds like some one serving food from a cardboard box !!! or in side a book