We actually left the cave this morning and physically went there in person (as opposed to metaphysically going there in person) and saw the sign they have outside about the impending dinner service. And the waitresses were telling people about it.

As far as I can tell, the restaurant doesn't yet have a Web site. I'm sure that's high on their agenda.

Heresy!

By Lanny Budd on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 9:23pm.

No web site? Inconceivable! You could at least take a photo of their menu with your iPhone and post it to Flicker. Next thing you know, other businesses will drop their sites to save money. Pretty soon we'll be back to dialup, ftp porn, and AOL.

Seriously though, I had a Reuben there a couple of weeks ago, and it was good. I am rooting that they become the kind of place that Guy Fiere would visit, because I am tired of seeing funky good eateries in Arizona and Kansas.

Well, it still looks exactly the same from the outside

By adamg on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 9:27pm.

And the inside looks pretty much the same, if a bit more polished and now absent the Cabbage Patch Dolls on swings. But you knew that :-).

Amazingly, although I had my camera in the car, I didn't think to take it with us. I know, I know, I'm falling down on the job.

While we were down there, we also checked out the Hyde Park library (I'd never been). The THOMAS M. MENINO WING (with his name embossed in shiny metal) is nice, but I really loved the old wing, right down to the creaky floors and the reading room with the (apparently long ago shut off) fireplace. It felt like we were stepping into the 1880s or something.

Is there a Jekyll Cafe?

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 9:35pm.

It could go in across the way, and provide more dependable service.

If only!

By adamg on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 9:45pm.

What's across the street is the soon-to-open (re-open?) Murphy's Country Kitchen and another soon-to-reopen place that has several large signs reading "OPENING SOON UNDER SAME MANAGEMENT!" which is great if you remember what was there before it was burned out (by whoever keeps trying to ruin that poor JP woman with the hair salon), not so good if your Hyde memory doesn't go back two years and you have no idea what used to be there.

Used to be Melinda's

By Lanny Budd on Sun, 03/22/2009 - 12:58am.

That space used to be Melinda's, which served up some tasty Central American eats and was one of our favorite take out places until it closed. Unfortunately, this is one of those black hole locations. No parking. You drive by, having an urge for some of the fare, but there are no spaces anywhere, so you pass unless you have a really really serious urge. And businesses can't rely only on serious urges. You have to have a lot of impulse buying. I hope that The Hyde can make a go of it there. Dottie's was open forever, but the clientele was walkup locals and those who knew which side streets they could park on. Even Barbara Lynch couldn't get financing for a new place whose business plan relied on neighbors dropping in.

Jekyll Cafe!!! You are

By Lynn from HP on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 2:14pm.

Jekyll Cafe!!! You are wicked funny!!!. Brilliant, almost makes me want to do it myself just for the laugh!

Make it a chain --Jekyll

By Ron Newman on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 2:56pm.

Make it a chain --Jekyll Park cafe in Cleary Square, and Jekyll Square cafe in (northern) Jamaica Plain.

New dinner option this coming week in Hyde Park

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