That Scarlet Pimpernel

I am a near constant traveller based in Miami Beach, Fl. Over the years I have burdened my friends with a flood of emails, seems time to move on, get with the times and burden them with a flood of blog entries! Inspired by my fictional alter ego, I can only observe "he's here, he's there, he's everywhere, that damned Pimpernel..."

Saturday, June 21, 2008

can the happy place be recreated?

David and I were trapped at the Palace by a rain storm yesterday after having lunch at a near by Italian eatery. I ran into an ols friend and we had a short conversation about what has befallen our former favorite watering hole. Basically the place has no personality -- laughter is a thing of the past, it does not present any sort of value proposition for the customer and is pretty much a sterile hole -- and when did rap become Miami bar music !! So we mused about whether or not the old Palace could be recreated Clearly not with the current leadership, howerver the old crew is still around, so perhaps with ownership that understands what a beach bar is and some leaders that grasp what made the place work in the first place, maybe











italian eatery