December 2019
Fifteen years. I’m both shocked that so much time has indeed passed, and yet everything still feels so new. I still get nervous before we open the doors. I still stress over mishaps. I am still heartbroken when we lose a teammate. When you decide to follow your dreams, when you expose your soft underbelly to the world, you never know what to expect. I did not anticipate the ways in which we would grow, and blossom as humans in the flow.
Some might say that to dedicate one’s life to food and wine and hospitality is folly. To live in service of others, even in this sense, has been the greatest life teacher. Our reverence for food and cooking and feeding others is deeply seeded. It is a beautiful expression of love to feed someone, and to be fed.
This restaurant is our home, literally and figuratively. We are at home here, our restaurant family calls this place home, and if we are lucky our guests feel at home when they dine with us. Not everyone has the opportunity to live their passion, to explore creativity for creativity’s sake. To not only be appreciated for said creativity, but to be honored with the trust of so many, the feeling is overwhelming. When only our family believed in us, they knew we were capable before we believed it. There is so much pride in what we have built. We have worked so hard. We are nothing but proud of the way we have done business, for the way we have treated those that have worked with us. For the way that they have treated us, with so much love and loyalty. For the community that we have created that has seeped into the greater community. To treat others with genuine hospitality and loving care is at the heart of everything we do, it has served as our true north. We have become something greater than the sum of our parts.
If you dined with us, if you pushed us to be better, if you brought your family here to celebrate, we thank you. We are so grateful to everyone who helped support us in every imaginable way. We cannot believe we have come so far, and we have no idea what the future holds, but based on our past and present, it will be beyond our wildest dreams.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for fifteen of the most incredible years.
all the love,
Ariana, Andres, Susan, Glenn, and the Family at Ariana