Daniela has never led me astray, either at her fabulous restaurants or at one she’s recommended to me.
Oh my, so fresh and so good and very affordable, too.” She then proceeded to recommend several dishes which struck her fancy. She admitted “Max and I were like kids last Saturday. Though she would probably have preferred most of my restaurant meals and words of praise be reserved for the her restaurants, Daniela emailed me a few years ago with a rousing endorsement for a restaurant she and husband Maxime discovered during a foray to the International District. Top View of Coda Combo (Jambon, Headham, Vietnamese Ham, BBQ Pork, Pate) In another example of a restaurateur with a pedigree of great restaurants unabashed with praise for another great restaurant, Daniela Bouneau, the vivacious dynamo who partnered with her husband Maxime to launch Torinos Home and Eclectic Urban Pizzeria is positively besotted with Basil Leaf, a Vietnamese gem. Marc Quinones, the über talented executive chef at Mas Tapas Y Vino is a huge fan of M’Tucci’s Italian Restaurant, listing ten reasons he loves about the restaurant in an interview with AbqLive. If they’re effusive about a restaurant, you should make it a point to visit soon. On the other hand, if you’d like to know where to find cuisine that meets exceedingly high standards, ask your favorite restaurateurs where they like to dine, particularly with family. Some restaurateurs would make great restaurant critics though they do tend to be overly “honest” when describing direct competitors, restaurants which serve the same type of cuisine they do. On their rare days off or when they’re able to make time for a quick escape, they like to visit their fellow restaurateurs, not necessarily to check up on the competition, but to be pampered and fed well. Because they spend so much time in their restaurants tending to the care and feeding of others, they tend not to eat there–when they make time to eat. I know restaurateurs for whom half days (or longer) are standard six or seven days a week.
When most of us are done for after only nine or ten hours, he was just starting what he calls his “second shift.” Very few of us have the stamina, initiative and especially the passion for what we do to work “half days.” JP, my former boss at Intel prides himself on consistently working “half days.” If you’re thinking you’d like a job where you work only four hours a day, you’ve misinterpreted his definition of “half days.” To him, half days is a literal term meaning twelve hours a day. Coda Bakery, home of fabulous Vietnamese sandwiches