So the haze hanging over the Michael’s Bistro kerfuffle seems to be lifting. The latest version I’ve heard (from a chorus of little birdies) is that the main owner canned a few people, precipitating a walk-out en masse by the rest of the staff.
Of course, I serve up this gossip with the caveat that hearsay is inevitably fraught with inconsistency, exaggeration, and falsehoods. Which is why it would be almost unconscionable for me to mention that I’ve also heard tell (those birdies, they sure do chirp) of a new partnership between the main Bistro owner and the chef formerly of Bohème notoriety (that there was a spicy comment section, I tell you what). Oh, and it’s with a low signal-to-noise ratio, but I’m also catching word that the other Bistro owner, who had a falling out with the majority owner, is looking to start his own joint.
Shamelessly idle gossip and rumors, no doubt. Feel free to drop your own restaurant earworms in the comments.
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Good deets.. maybe they will take the escafe spot?
maybe they will take the escafe spot?
I noticed that Scowly and I posted almost simultaneously. cVillain mindmeld: it has begun!
You will all be assimilated. Resistance is futile
You know, if there’s one thing I like, it’s restaurant gossip and speculation.
And restaurant innuendo. I like that, too.
And restaurant innuendo. I like that, too.
If you know what Hawkins means; and I think you do….
Holy mother of GOD, the cVillain swoops in and gets the scoop!
Just in case anyone wanted anything other than “Shamelessly idle gossip and rumors, no doubt,” look no further than a posting that appeared on the Hook’s blog back on July 29th where an actual reporter actually called actual people involved and got the following news:
1) Michael Crafaik aka “the main owner” fired manager Bob Dorsey after which the staff walked out.
2) “One person new to the payroll is Clive Papayanis, caterer and owner of Boheme, a recently closed restaurant on Market Street.” In fact, Crafaik said, “Clive is my ambassador at this time.”
In addition, C-ville weekly covered much of the same news back on July 28th including the bit that “at some point” Chuck Adcock aka “the other Bistro owner” would probably try to open another restaurant.”
Thor - it’s not to late to trademark this gossip and then accuse the locals of stealing your scoops! Oh wait, yes it is…
@6, As Gobbler mentioned, we give credit where credit is due. We were defending one of our own. I don’t even know TheUpstart personally, but I respect people who participate on our site and believe in us. We typically don’t participate in UNCUS discussions because of people who ferociously grasp onto “this is a real media” outlet. Anyone can be their own journalist now and that scares the shit out of anyone who spent their entire life in journalism.
No one ever said we had “real” journalists on this site, but go to cvillemuse or cvillestyle if you want that sort of thing. It’s great and everyone has their place, but cVillain is different. We get some stories first sometimes and sometimes we don’t. If we don’t get them first, we say thank you with a link.
Scoop, your snide comment makes me think you really don’t understand the point of this site. That’s fine and there is probably a reason for that.
My point is we do things for the community.. we give an equal voice to our readers. We don’t believe in editors and journalists in the old school way; we believe in people, those same people who give those journalists and editors their stories.
Touchy touchy, Mr. What a scoop. I wish the actual reporter had actually contacted some of the actual employees to maybe find out why the employees walked out over the firing of a manager.
Point is, someone from the Hook read us talking about the MB incident, then investigated, then said they heard the story from “some blog”. That’s lame.
@6: I wasn’t really trying to scoop anyone, just updating on a conversation we had earlier. Here’s another update: the whole HooK/C-VILLE vs. cVillian trope is stupid, tired, boring, and, most importantly, meaningless.
Regardless, welcome to the monkey house; there’s high-test coffee in the kitchen, along with a bunch of bagels (toasted and untoasted—we aim to please). Please do help yourself.
Way to spell Cvillain wrong dude. You’re fired.
Stanley must be punished!
Ah, crap.
@8 actually Shen you have no idea how the hook got the story- be honest. They could have been told by any of the people quoted or involved. News does not happen in a straight linear fashion. How many people are involved 10? 15? x their friends or families and you got a lot of sources.
How exactly does a reporter find an employee and not the manger? Is there a list they would consult? What happens is management speaks first and if employees then contact that reporter, the reporter then updates the story based on more info. You can be mad at the Hook blog because people were mean to you.( and they were very wrong to do so) It’s your scorn for the Hook reporters I just don’t understand.
@9 I could not agree more.
Way to spell Cvillain wrong dude
It should be noted, for the record, that your capitalization is non-standard and therefore, in some prescriptivist sense, wrong as well.
/my umbrage; let me show it to you.
“One person new to the payroll is Clive Papayanis, caterer and owner of Boheme….. Sorry Mr. Papayanis never was one of the owner(s) of Boheme. He is an excellent chief and can make your mouth water but also has a lot of issuses in his life. It will be interesting to see what all becomes of the new daytime soap oprea.
@13: No I don’t know how they got it, they’re the ones who said they heard “speculation in blogs”…hmmm now what blog would that be? And I’m not mad at the Hook blog, jusy myself and others think it’s lame when they refuse to give us credit for stuff. I do have a problem with that particular article though, it doesn’t seem like they got the whole story. It seems like they just got the jerk owner’s biased side on things and left it at that. As for scorn, huh? Where’s the scorn?
That ‘what a scoop’ person seems a bit hypocritical
@15: Oh shiiitt G&B it is correcting UNCUS. Boo yeah!
Thor, for the record, I’m very much PRO-blog. I even have an original Blogger.com t-shirt if that helps prove it
My point being, I’m all for the way in which blogging - and the internet, has challenged traditional forms of media.
I think I do understand the site and I definitely subscribe to your comment that “My point is we do things for the community.. we give an equal voice to our readers. We don’t believe in editors and journalists in the old school way; we believe in people, those same people who give those journalists and editors their stories.”
In fact, it’s why I continue to participate in this community even as I’m critical that you’re earning money off of my page views while making such altruistic “do it for the children” types of proclamations as the one above.
But here’s the bottom line, harsh as it may seem:
1) Stanley’s post was silly. How can you call information that was reported on by the traditional media almost 2 weeks ago “gossip with the caveat that hearsay is inevitably fraught with inconsistency, exaggeration, and falsehoods.”??? It’d be like posting that a certain music mogul is trying to open a new mid-sized music venue not far from the downtown mall and calling it gossip. Now Scowly’s original post on July 25th most certainly qualified as gossip, which leads me to point #2…
2) The whole scene with Michael’s Bistro happened prior to July 25th and was already making the rounds before Scowly’s post. I’m guessing the story was making its way to the 2 local weeklies right around the same time it was making its way to Scowly - it’s a small town after all. The 2 local weeklies - the fact that they both run blogs notwithstanding, are still traditional media and therefore feel bound to do things like attempt to contact the involved parties and discuss the situation BEFORE they “report” on it.
My point being, the fact that Scowly posted about the Bistro on cVillain 2 or 3 days before it hit the local rags doesn’t mean that they got the story by reading cVillain or that cVillain is any way, shape or form due any credit for their having reported on it.
And really Thor, my bigger point all along is, you shouldn’t care!
One more thing - if Stanley had focused on what the other owner is actually up to instead of more or less rehashing the information that he plans to open a new restaurant, that could have made for a more interesting scoop.
@14
is it just me, or do things always get a lot more exciting around here when Stanley shows someone his umbrage?
/getting comfy, popping ‘corn, cracking tube…
Psssht. Stanley’s umbrage was broing and dusty.
boring. Ack!
broing! is just the sound that stanley’s umbrage makes when he whips it out. you’re in the clear, shen.
Dusty Umbrage: my new pr0n name.
@22: You bet your bippy it does. BROING!
whatevs… Clive rocks! go eat his food and then just try to hate on anything.