The barristo said that Toscanini's (or someone sufficiently associated with them) bought the Someday about a year ago.
Clearly it's been competing with Diesel, which is quite a "Be Seen" scene. It's a rare day when I don't bump into someone I know there. Someday has become the place where you want to be accessible, but not constantly interrupted. If you just want to get out of the house, but really want to just read or write, the Someday still is a far better choice than Diesel. They also have an open mike nite. Their second room, with the previous better seating, was quite suitable for that. (I guess now you'd just have the performers up by the window, since most of the seating is in back. Maybe the seating change helps acoustics?)
There is still some comfortable seating, but it just looked barren when I walked in. I suspect the seating will morph as customers see fit anyway.
It was not inviting, so my conclusion was that they wanted to bump up customer turn-over.
I spent most of my life in the sticks. In the rare event that someone opened a hip hang-out cafe, it never lasted more than a couple years. The Someday still beats the crap out of Starbucks, no matter how "comfy" starbucks appears to be.
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Re: questions
Date: 2002-10-04 06:16 pm (UTC)Clearly it's been competing with Diesel, which is quite a "Be Seen" scene. It's a rare day when I don't bump into someone I know there. Someday has become the place where you want to be accessible, but not constantly interrupted. If you just want to get out of the house, but really want to just read or write, the Someday still is a far better choice than Diesel. They also have an open mike nite. Their second room, with the previous better seating, was quite suitable for that. (I guess now you'd just have the performers up by the window, since most of the seating is in back. Maybe the seating change helps acoustics?)
There is still some comfortable seating, but it just looked barren when I walked in. I suspect the seating will morph as customers see fit anyway.
It was not inviting, so my conclusion was that they wanted to bump up customer turn-over.
I spent most of my life in the sticks. In the rare event that someone opened a hip hang-out cafe, it never lasted more than a couple years. The Someday still beats the crap out of Starbucks, no matter how "comfy" starbucks appears to be.