Gypsy Apparently Shuts Down
This mysterious message just came in from Gypsy, the mostly underground restaurant:
Camelot has ended.We wake up, we go to work, we come home, we occasionally eat out. Most lives are fashioned after this pattern. Most restaurant's lives are as well: make food, sell food, clean up, go home. Sometimes, a very magical sometimes, restaurants are able to trancend [sic] the merely ordinary and in doing so, transform to some small degree the lives of its patrons.
Gypsy has been this magical place for many many people. New friends, new ideas, new love, a salon of creativity. But as with all things destined to touch hearts, evil waits to take it away. We have been betrayed. Gypsy as we know it was too scary a place to exist, so now it doesn't.
We are going much deeper underground. Those who really know how to get ahold of us, please email (please don't call us), we will start a new list, a more protected list. Dinners are cancelled for all intents and purposes. And to the traitor to the clan we offer you this: May you never sleep well, may laughter sound bitter in your ears, and may food always taste like ashes to you...this is our Gypsy curse. You have destroyed a good thing.
I've got an email out to them to see if I can learn more. If you know, let me know.
4 comment(s)
Andy says:
probably has something to do with new liquor control laws and associated crackdown
Posted On: Thursday, Apr. 10 2008 @ 4:19PM
sgirlie says:
Gypsy curse? Give me a break. They were operating illegally and were finally caught.
They show no remorse, blame others, and claim they\'ll carry on. Who cares? Maybe they will, when a diner becomes ill, or kills someone after being served illegally.
Posted On: Thursday, Apr. 10 2008 @ 7:20PM
Troy says:
Imagine some of the best chefs, staff, and foodies in the state, then have them invest dozens or hundreds of hours into a single event.
You can probably surmise that proper food handling was not an issue.
Not that a Health Dept. stamp magically solves those.
Posted On: Thursday, Apr. 10 2008 @ 9:33PM
Jonathan K says:
All the food writers in town got the email at the same time. See P-I food editor Rebekah Denn\'s blog for the scoop on a related story:
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/devouringseattle/archives/136290.asp
Posted On: Friday, Apr. 11 2008 @ 12:13PM