It has now been over 3 months since I stopped being the owner of Le Pichet, more that 8 months since we sold Café Presse. I have to admit, as much as I loved opening and operating these two restaurants, as much as I enjoyed collaborating with the the great teams we had in the kitchen and dining room, as much as I loved greeting and serving our friends everyday, I am as thrilled to be starting a new adventure. While I still have energy in my legs and arms and my back still functions.
My job now is getting everything ready for our departure for France. That’s right, if you havent heard me say it before – which I find hard to believe; I have basically told everyone who would listen in the last 10 years that my wife and I are planning to live in France “someday” – we are pulling up stakes and moving to our house in France, more specifically in Orthez, in the deep southwest of France. We have picked a departure date in mid February 2022, and are working through the immense pile of stuff that you can imagine accompanies an international move. Next week, for example, we fly to San Francisco for an interview that is required to obtain a long-stay visa in France, a Visa Longue Durée. Continue reading
