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Jamaica Plain cafe reopens tonight as an Italian place
By adamg on Tue, 11/04/2014 - 6:40am
Jamaica Plain News has the details on the revamped Centre Street Cafe.
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Disappointing
As a big fan of the old Centre Street Cafe, this is a major drag.
Lighten up, Francis
They're keeping brunch. It's run by the team that runs Tres Gatos, one of JP's best two or three restaurants. JP will now have an Italian place, which it has lacked for years. Felicia Sánchez, the previous owner, was retiring anyway, and the alternative would have been to shutter the place. This is literally the best possible way the story could have played out.
Agreed
It is unrealistic to expect non-corporate neighborhood restaurants to exist forever, or even more than 10 years. Sometimes a restaurant will be passed from owner to owner over decades, sometimes within a family, but that is the exception and not the rule. (That Krista Kranyak has kept the excellent Ten Tables going in JP for more than 12 years is a tribute to her perseverance.) We will remember Centre Street Cafe fondly and look forward to the new Italian incarnation.
Choose Vee Vee
I agree, Ten Tables used to be really good. Conversely, Vee Vee has always been, and continues to be sensational.
I've only been for brunch...
I've only been for brunch... how does dinner stack up? Is it really as good as Ten Tables?
I used to find the food at T.
I used to find the food at T. T. To be superb, surpassing all expectations, from the little taster right thru to the coffee at the end. We would talk about our T. T. meals for days. The last 3 times I've been the food has been kind of average, good, but nothing special, and thus, WAY over priced, in my mind. Had we not had a gift certificate I doubt we would have bothered this last visit.
So to answer your question, no, Vee Vee is not as good as T. T.
Vee Vee a lot better.
Lighten up yourself, eric
It's no secret to any of us here that "all things must pass". I think Jay P. can be allowed a moment to mourn a neighborhood place he clearly enjoyed.
We always found the food at
We always found the food at the C. S. Cafe to be pretty mediocre at best (& down-right in edible at worst). That coupled with the general dirtiness of the place caused us to stop going there years and years ago. The new Italian place sounds fantastic, and since I've been a customer of "the Rhythm and Muse Guys" for decades I look forward to this positive addition to the strip.
Completely opposite experience
You "always" found the food there mediocre - but you stopped going there "years and years ago"?
Sounds like you had...
- an axe to grind;
- a little stroke.
I'd been a regular customer since they opened up over near Pond. Never had any issues with their cleanliness, and the food was consistently hearty and tasty.
Felicia and her crew deserve big kudos for creating a great place and keeping it such a cherished part of the neighborhood for as long as they did.
Or maybe, just maybe, I have
Or maybe, just maybe, I have higher standards than do you.
CS Cafe
I only went to the Centre St Cafe once, back in 2010 or maybe 2011. The food was really good, the wait staff was friendly and attentive but right when I was done with my meal, I made the mistake of looking up and noticed that the ceiling was moldy. Not just kinda moldy, I'm talking moldy as hell, like "Hoarders" or the New Orleans 9th Ward after Katrina moldy. The place kinda felt like a stoner's dorm room from the 80s. I never went back and I'm really looking forward to the new Italian place.
while they're at it..
...maybe JP can bring back Today's Bread (and Water Cafe)
Do you mean
Todays Bigot and Whitey Cafe?
BWC
..well, an explanation would help.