F is for Fhima

Louis XIII in Southdale is dead. Closed.

The sign reads: Unfortunately, Louis XIII as a concept has failed and we’re forced to close our doors. We hope to open soon under a new concept.

Huh.

The “concept” has failed. We’re “forced” to close our doors. It’s really not our fault, we’re actually brilliant, it’s you people who don’t get it. Our will is to keep this smashing restaurant open, but against our will, it must close. Is that it?

Clearly it wasn’t due to overblown ego. No chance did it have anything to do with bad business sense (I believe he JUST hired a bookkeeper). And yet people keep throwing him money because he has “passion”?

I suggest a new note for the door: The king is dead. Sorry about the greed and about forgetting that a restaurant is a living, working world that feeds people, not just a “concept” to add to the press kit. Hopefully, if we can pull our heads out of our asses and think about food and people again, we might be able to promise AND deliver.