Check out today’s Seattle Times, for a very nice article penned by Bethany Jean Clement, celebrating 25 years of Le Pichet. I was so glad that Bethany especially featured the wonderful group of people who have worked at Le Pichet during those 25 years, who prepared the meals and washed the dishes and brewed the coffee and served the wine and made our guests feel so at home. They are the real heroes of Le Pichet’s 25 year (and counting!) success story.

Thanks very much to Bethany for a great article and congratulations to Michael, Marcel and everyone who spent time as part of the Le Pichet team!

Café Presse will be one of the featured restaurants on the Thursday June 19, 2014 episode of “Check, Please”.  The show will air on KCTS channel 9 at 7:30pm.  We hope that the “Check, Please” reviewers loved Cafe Presse…wish us luck and keep your fingers crossed!

Lately, I have had the odd experience of people, some I know and some I don’t, coming up to me and saying “Hey great interview on Eater”.   The surprise is not that so many people read Eater.com…as a person past 50, I have come to accept that there are a lot of people who read things on line that I either don’t follow very closely or have no idea as to what they are.

Or that people I don’t know occasionally recognize me…after all, the article has a photo.

The surprise is that the article and interview, written by Julien Perry of Eater.com, seems to have have struck a chord with people.  The article is one in a series that examines what makes some restaurants last while others disappear after a few years.  I have a few theories on that subject, or at least concerning why people have continued to do us the great favor of dining at Le Pichet after more than 13 years in business.

Well, I am glad people have enjoyed the article and seemed to have appreciated my thoughts on the restaurant game, thanks for your interest! My wife would  say that I enjoy hearing myself talk, so no surprise, I enjoyed it as well.  If you haven’t seen it and are interested, here is a link.