In addition to the recent rumored sale of Java Java (too many coffee shops and too many wine places in Charlottesville?), we heard Crush is trying hard to be sold. Birdie explains:
The owner didn’t go into much detail about it, but it’s definitely sad, considering it’s a great wine shop. I don’t know if this is old hat, but it was news to me.
How does this relate to our favorite wine connoisseur’s departure? Anyone recall the “scariest food business from our 2007 superlatives?”
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Oh, I guessed this was going to happen over a month ago and I asked if I could have there television. Hannah got a little upset, said it was definitely not closing and has given me really small pours ever since.
Way to go doof.
Well, I actually said to orchid, “They’re obviously going to go out of business soon. Do you think they’d give me their television?” Hannah overheard that. I still get small pours though.
I hope at the very least that people in Belmont/Downtown will have the wherewithal to walk down there to get their wine once a week or as prescribed. The wine is so good and so cheap. If it is sold, I hope the model will continue.
As an aside, this news saddens me greatly. It’s a great little shop.
Does anyone know where Greggggg Oxley surfaced?…. fuck I loved that guy.
@3 DUH echo, that’s because THE LAW SAYS pours are only one ounce.
/quote-unquote
@post funny, paul said they were selling SO MUCH MORE wine now that they made fridays suck.
How have they made Fridays suck? I gots mad lub for their fridays. And people seem to be buying up a storm on friday, that’s true.
This is a sad day for me. I only go to Crush and Es cafe and I was told this afternoon that Escafe was sold today. I wonder if they will close the doors or stay open???
@8 did you just start fridaying?
-subtract gregg
-subtract gregg’s wife
-add hannah
-subtract belmont bbq biscuits
-subtract food network
-subtract 3/4 of the patrons
oh right right. Got it. Agreed.
orchid knows how to do the math.
@9
what is the story with Escafe–any elaboration on that one?
@Post
did we already cover the sale of La Boheme to a swanky upscale Chinese restaurant? and any word on the two kids in black leather jackets (Alec and someone) opening an alternative late-nite burger and fries joint on/just-off the Mall?
@ 9 & 13
Yes escafe was sold. No it will not close, it will remain open under the same name. It was bought by a regular who has plans for improving it tremendously. The changes may be gradual, but they are already afoot. My educated opinion is that this is, and will be, a good thing… fear not!
Crush? Who knows… I could use some of their cedar planks, though.
@13
Do tell more about the ‘upscale, swanky’ part of the new Boheme replacement. I had only heard Chinese, which of course, more often than not, is anything but?
@13 this town is in desperate need of a really good, upscale Chinese place. what have you heard?
You mean real Chinese food? Not American Chinese? I’d go for that. Hell, I’d go fo any restaurant that served traditional, authentic cultural/regional cuisine. Why not have a Russian restuarant? Borscht and piroshkies?
/am seriously craving a pasty.
//PASSty for all those unfamiliar.
BBT ….Cornish or cheese and onion?
Excellent news about Escafe. Any chance the regular who bought it–who must be known to us, yes?–will cleverly change the name back to Eastern Standard and not call it some moronic one-word ‘evocative’ post-modern name like every other new place to open in town in ten friggin years has? Failing that, there was this cool ultra-pretentious place in france where i used to piss away my student loans checks called “L’Inconnu”. Everyone (except me) wore black turtlenecks and horn-rims, it was in a back-alley with a steel door. In any case, you could eat at Bizou, pick up some undies at Derriere de Soie, then have a nightcap at L’Inconnu.
No more details than that on the Chinese place–i just heard about the sale and that it was to be very upscale, not just another chow-meinery.
Russian would be good, provided they have broader Soviet stuff as well—Goulaschesuppe and black bread. Or, more current-eventsy, Afghanistani food is exquisite.
@18 Cornish, as befitting my heritage… But have had all types. Very adaptable and experiment-friendly recipe.
/Made a damn fine batch of pasties a few weeks ago. Lovely.
@20
fraud! you were a Lapplander on the other Post!!
@21 Slandering my character, OD! I’m hurt…*pout* Really, I’m not a fraud. 1/4 Cornish and 1/4 Finnish thanks to my mother, and 1/2 Irish thanks to my biological father.
/Grandmother’s surname was actually changed to Laplander when her family immigrated to the U.S. We’re more Saami than Finn.
@22
so sorry to doubt you. nobody who wasn’t would admit to Saami. funny, we were just talking about the brutal Vikings invading the peaceful, vegetarian, non-fossil-fuel-burning Irish.
@23 Saami equates with Vikings? Or are you just mentioning that you were talking about Vikings invading Eire? We were very peaceful people, don’t believe in war…we’re nomadic reindeer herders.
@24
just mentioning it, couldn’t remember if you were here at that point. i’m duller than usual tonite.
to bed i think, dreams of your apron-only pastry-cheffing with mukluks.
No — I’m not one, But! — you don’t mess with the Sammis!
sounds like twew wuv to me!
excuse me for getting back on topic, but:
@post:
1) crush not sold.
2) hannah & andrew gone.
3) friday’s on thursday this week because apparently paul doesn’t want to see the halloween costume i don’t yet have.
@6 – I do know where Gregg is working now but it’s too sad to type. Hopefully it’s a move he wanted to make.
@29 i don’t think there’s any shame in what Gregg is doing. girlfriend and i shop at that location frequently and saw him there one saturday recently. he’s probably at least making a manager’s salary and benefits. he could easily be on his way up to a good job with a distributor or something. anyways, i wish him luck.
KCB…you have no idea how sad that has made me feel
@30 Definitely no shame, but perhaps sad for us in that he can’t really re-create the great idiosyncratic vibe that was Crush in his current location.
Well, Crush’s potential demise if probably linked in some way to the store’s legal dispute with the bigger, more famous Crush in NYC, no?
Crush isn’t closing. orchid @28 heard that from a very reliable source.
@34 birdie’s news is so last week. & it wasn’t a demise but a change in ownership. but it’s not now.