Location: Swank (opening Wednesday, December 3)
What You’re Seeing: Designer Anthony Laurino walking us through his vision as Dave Hoemann (F+B Director for JDV) and Richard Kass (Swank’s GM) price out the Harvey Wallbanger.
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Location: Dosa on Fillmore (opening Friday, Nov. 28)
What You’re Seeing: Owner Anjan Mitra showing what his new walls are going to look like. He’s a pretty happy guy, and you’ll see why in a couple weeks when those walls are up.
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Taken from: Rivera Public Relations office window
What You’re Seeing: Michelle’s car getting towed. Michelle works at our office and should know not to park on that street ☺
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Location: Hecho
What You’re Seeing: Owner Joseph Manzare trying to find a successful combination of sushi, tequila and that color green.  He will find the balance, I personally know this, and here’s how…
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Location: Rivera Public Relations home office
What You’re Seeing: Poleng’s 3-Star, Rising Star Chef Tim Luym facing off against owner/business partner Desi Danganan for Street Fighter II supremacy.
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Location: Lombard Street
What You’re Seeing: Bill Higgins of Real Restaurants (over a dozen amazing restaurants) being kidnapped by a gang of Mariachis, including Todd Palmerton (far end) of Vintage 415.  Let the record show that Bill would voluntarily put the hat on immediately after this photo, and that the Mariachi (that looks like me) had to beg him for it back.
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I do not check emails on Friday.
Instead of spending this day writing/responding to hundreds of emails, I’ve chosen to spend my Fridays visiting clients and media; as we believe that you can get more accomplished in a 5-minute face-to-face meeting than you can in 5 back-and-forth emails.
At Rivera Public Relations, we pride ourselves on our relationships with our clients and we do not define success by a clean inbox.  We found ourselves spending increasingly more-and-more time trying to “get through emails,†and less time on what’s really important; human interaction.
I was inspired by an article in Forbes Magazine that I would recommend everyone reads, here’s a good excerpt…..
“The self that grows up with multitasking and rapid response measures success by calls made, e-mails answered and messages responded to. Self-esteem is calibrated by what the technology proposes, by what it makes easy. We live a contradiction: Insisting that our world is increasingly complex, we nevertheless have created a communications culture that has decreased the time available for us to sit and think, uninterrupted. We are primed to receive a quick message to which we are expected to give a rapid response. Children growing up with this may never know another way. Their experience raises a question for us all: Are we leaving enough time to take our time on the things that matter?” read the entire article
Want to join the No Email Friday revolution? It’s simple and it’s free, just paste “No Email Fridays” in the subject line of your auto-response and POOF, you’re in the club.
Opening next Tuesday, November 11th, Gitane Restaurant is a modern, funky, and artistically bold new restaurant.
You’ll have to wait until Tuesday to taste the food and see the beautiful space, but you can get a sneak peak first look inside of Gitane here!  Watch the below video for an interview with the executive chef, wine director, mixologist and designer.
Read more about the restaurant