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Welcome to the best five
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buildings, especially when
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you're talking about. Building
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built in 17 87. Whatever you
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want to call it. It's been a
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rough season and like a boat,
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the thing that empties your
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bank account won't be the thing
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you were worried about. Have
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you got examples of some
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unexpected costs? I mean,
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honestly, the hood. That's what
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I was going to say. No, it was
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like the worst part. I used
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basically all of what I made
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the year before you know to put
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into that. So then there was a
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lot of stuff that was like
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broken and rotted because we
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had so much rain. It was like
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the rainiest spring and summer
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ever. So I was like, Okay, well,
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I have five tenants now, so I
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need to actually fix this deck
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like a day so that my people
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can get into the door. You know
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that they had to kind of do
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that, like on an emergency
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level, which was obviously
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expensive. It's just like
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maintaining a lot. I was very
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fortunate that I had a
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restaurant that was actually
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in the business building
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because it's on these, you
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know, big heating oil tanks
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that I didn't know about, and
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no one would have shown me
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because there wasn't a tenant
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upstairs downstairs to the
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side. I didn't know how much
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it was going to be. And then
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air conditioning this summer
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was a shock for sure. So I was
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very unfortunate that the
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restaurant did start doing very
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well. Well, then when you sit
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down, you've got all these
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different wines and tapas.
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That's I s o l a wine and
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tapas. Okay, so you've got two
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different kind of clashing
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there. I solo means island,
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right? Yeah. So I say he
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solo. But when people say I
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solo or like if we were
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Italian, we'd probably say
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East solo, you know, But yeah,
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it just means island in
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Italian because on my
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travels, you know, doing all
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this, these press trips, I was
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really surprised how different
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wines from coastal regions and
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islands can be so like the
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Canary Islands, you know,
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tasting least on Negro for the
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first time being so blown away
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and especially how affordable
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it is because nobody knows
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about least on Negro. They're
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not banging down the doors of
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your wine shop, trying to get
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Canary Island least on it. So
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that and Morello Masca lazy
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from Sicily and just a lot of
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really cool stuff from Corsica
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I don't think I've ever heard
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of like an islands restaurant
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and I wanted something
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specific because the world of
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wine, obviously, you know, it's
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huge will never be finished.
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No learning about the world.
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It's just crazy. And I did want
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it to be, you know, just a
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little bit more focused where I
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can still do Languedoc, right?
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Like South of France. I got a
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Musca down there. That's the
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coast. I have a ton. I just
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got back from Galicia. So I
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always have an Albariño on
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there because so likable and
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drinkable and starting to get
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more popular to at least my
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clientele up here. But yeah,
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and then I just built the
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tapas around that. So my
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chef, she was at the CIA. She
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was at Blue Hills Stone Barns.
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Like just she's got the
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craziest resume. She was in
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New York City, like the same
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12 years that I was. I told her,
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you know, the concept and she
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was like, I can absolutely
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build this, you know,
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Mediterranean style tapas menu
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where you have just like
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Italian, a little bit of
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French, a little Spanish. And
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so we're building it around
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what you would have in these
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islands and coastal region.
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You're not ordering from Cisco,
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are you? No, no. Yeah. It's all
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local. Yeah. We have like five
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different farms. Actually last
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night I had, cause I just got
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back from Galicia. I had a
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coast of Galicia dinner and
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there was, it was sold out with
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26 people. And at the end of
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the night she looked at me and
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she goes, wow, 99% of our
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ingredients came from five miles
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away. That's incredible. So I
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was really happy. I mean, we
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work with farms, all the meat
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is local here and it's just
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like so fantastic. She has
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steak tartare on the menu,
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chicken liver mousse. I would
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say upscale casual, but there's
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also it's adult only. So it's a
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vibe. So I am kid free in the
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main dining room. Somebody on
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a date night, what are they
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looking at for a typical meal
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and a typical wine and the
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price? So all of my wines, you
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know, they're not, I'm not
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carrying Burgundy here, Bordeaux
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and they're looking at $60
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bottles of wine and they'll
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probably get three tapas per
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person. That's $20 each. So
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six, I mean, I would say
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probably my average, the last
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time I looked on my sales
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average check was like 170
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