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The Impossible Reservation: What's next for Talula's Table
talulastable.com Investors wanted.
The Impossible Reservation: What's next for Talula's Table
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You've probably prepared to make this call at some point: Setting your alarm clock for 6:40 a.m. so you can at least have caffeine fueling your fingers, programming 610-444-8255 into the speed dial, and then holding your breath and praying your call goes through one nanosecond after 7 a.m.
It's the farmhouse dinner reservation at Talula's Table � the single nightly table for 8 to 12 guests is booked one year in advance by the caller with the most motivation. Aimee Olexy and Bryan Sikora, the original owners of now-closed boite Django, have been turning out the most-wanted tasting menu in three counties for more than two years at their Kennett Square gourmet food shop. Frustrated diners still living without Sikora's magical gougeres and legendary goat cheese gnocchi could get a fighting chance at the table if investors step up to fund the duo's next project.
Olexy says they have just signed a temporary lease on the corner property across the street from Talula's Table, with a month-long grace period to secure funding. "We believe our dream will happen," says Olexy. "Financially, it's a little bit of a pipe dream right now, but we are in love with the space and are ready to get going. We think we could turn it around pretty quick once we have the financing � six months, even."
The as-yet unnamed project would continue "what we know well," says Olexy. They plan for the 40- to 50-seat bistro space to have a liquor license, "though it will be more like a wine bar, vineyard-y feel. Instead of facing a bartender with liquor displayed all over, we envision little islands where a single person could dine, more like the service at a table. We're all about the food."
So if what you are truly longing for is housemade charcuterie and ramps dug by your chef just this morning (sans a nerve-wracking year-long wait), take a drive to the country to put your money where you mouth wants to go.
Talula's Table, 102 West State St., Kennett Square, 610-444-8255, talulastable.com
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[...] Talula’s Table has signed a temporary lease on a corner property directly across from America’s most difficult reservation. If they get the financing Aimee Olexy and Bryan Sikora imagine being up and running within 6 months. [Meal Ticket] [...]
[...] in April ‘09, Felicia D wrote about the tentative expansion plans of Aimee Olexy and Bryan Sikora of Kennett Square’s lauded Talula’s Table. (Here’s David Snyder’s 2008 [...]
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