Osteria La Buca is stuck in a wrinkle in time

Commenter MaxMillion asks:

Any idea when La Buca's expansion will be completed? Every time you ask them it's, "In a few weeks."

I called Osteria La Buca and they said (wait for it): "In three more weeks. We hope."

In other words, I think it looks likely by early next year.

It's like "A Wrinkle in Time," where time behaved differently in different environments.

For musicians, you can take the given time, judge how late they'll be and add an hour.

For restaurateurs, the formula is simpler: New restaurants don't open when they're supposed to.

Ever. They can't help it, with all the permits and licenses and contractors and the desire to satisfy the fierce judgments of a hungry public. (Ahem.)

Look at La Buca. Or Comme Ca. Or Boule Atelier. Or the Mozzas. This morning I went to Lift. Not only is it supposed to open today, it's also open 22 hours a day. At 8:45 a.m., the kitchen wasn't ready.

Comments

[Doug]

Holy crap! I love that book. Not two weeks ago I used it as the title of a post I wrote discussing the latest in wrinkle reduction technology.

[MaxMillion]

Thanks for the La Buca update. Also, I recently re-read L'Engle's book (10 years of rejection before publication and awards) and I was surprised how much of it I had committed to memory.