Ball Square Cafe

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

I noticed today that the Ball Square Cafe is opening soon where Sound Bites used to be. (I have to say, I like the sign--the way the word "cafe" forms a teacup, and the steam makes the sqiggly ells in "Ball.")

http://www.ballsquarecafe.com/

Comments

[amethystmoon.livejournal.com]

any idea who's running it?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

This is the cafe of the landlord who kicked SoundBites out so he could open his own breakfast place. Yassir (SoundBites owner) told me about it. I think the landlord expected that SoundBites would just go away and he could have all the business, but Yassir rented the place right next door.

Ball Square needs to be renamed Breakfast Square.

[amethystmoon.livejournal.com]

oh but they're all such tasty breakfasts :)

or Yassir Square

[cthulhia]

since he bought Zings and Urban Gourmet.

*maybe* nuclear war would stop soundbites, but I have my doubts.

[billharnois.livejournal.com]

I heard ballsquarecafe recruited the head chef from Soundbites, and Yasir's not happy about it.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

the sign out front backs that up too--something to the effect of "same chef, new menu!"

[mkwatt.livejournal.com]

It says "Same Cook, New Look." That seems like very "dirty" competition, must really p-off Yasir!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Yikes, the breakfast drama is mounting! :-) I wonder if he plans to rip off SoundBite's recipes too, then. That would be very uncool, but I do think SoundBites is indestructible. Yassir thinks so, too!

[nalz.livejournal.com]

I say good - maybe he'll be less of a dick to people when they have more choices.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yay! I look forward to trying it. (Hopefully the customer service will be the polar opposite of that at Sound Bites...)

[billharnois.livejournal.com]

Has the customer service of Soundbites improved at all since they moved to a bigger place? Though it seems the lines are even longer now.

weekdays, people

[cthulhia]

Soundbites is still pleasant service on weekdays. If you're a regular, Yassir often gives you a plate of fruit on the house.

But, on the weekend, if the line is ridiculous, they respond in kind.

More competing breakfast would make all the area services improve.

I hope one of the places labelled "cafe" learns to be open til 11 pm too. (Soundbites now has a full bar license, so they may start having evening hours.)

Re: weekdays, people

[nalz.livejournal.com]

And yet - I have been plenty of very busy line-out-the-door places, and people may be a bit frazzled but they're still polite and nice! Crazytalk for people here, I know.

But I don't want to only get good service on weekdays, therefore they don't get my business and I won't recommend that place to anyone.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

We ate at SB yesterday, and the line moved slightly more quickly. We also got in faster because a waitress came out looking for the next party of 2, which was us. They gave us the VIP free fruit plate. Food was great. The only glitch was that the busboy disappeared with our bill/money and we had to wait about 10 minutes to get our change. Nobody knew where our money went. So, overall it's basically the same experience as in the old place.

(Oh, I can hear Yasir out the window right now. He lives next door, and drowns out all the airplanes. ;-))