Austin Cantina

Not re-opening

In order to minimize losses, and to allow the landlord to re-rent the space and recover some expenses. We will vacate the premises and leave most major appliances in place. Our last day on 24th street will be 12/30/08.

In an effort to recover some of the expenses of creating Austin Cantina, we'll be selling Cantina t-shirts for $10.00 each and a bunch of decor and kitchen small-wares. Check out http://austincantina.org/private/forsale.htm for details.
We also have a modest stock of sealed hot sauce bottles that could be available at $5.00 each, shoot me an e-mail if you are interested in any of these items.

contact Jefe@austincantina.org

Cold, Cold, Cold, Goodbye

It looks ever more likely that tonight will be the last night of Austin Cantina in its present configuration. I am too far behind on bills and taxes to make it through another January, February, March, April like 2008, and all indications are that the coming year is likely to be tougher on consumers than the last year, and therefore tougher on consumer businesses like this one.

I feel so good about so much that we've done here, it's a difficult exercise to guess what we might have done differently that would have allowed us to continue. I have many ideas about what we could do differently next time. I will spend the next 2 weeks thinking about I'm going to do next.

The photos in this post were taken yesterday, before the BIG snowfall today. I thought that when I left the midwest in the late 80's I was done with people shoveling driveways and the phrase "wind-chill-factor".

Everyone think good thoughts and have a great holiday season. I wish you all the best and look forward to keeping everyone informed about what I'm doing next.

ARTWalk 12/13/08

We are participating once again in Ballard ARTWalk this weekend, please drop by to see

Soda Pop Santos

Area teacher and arts educator T. Beth Sims's bubbly mixed media shrines are
a refreshing and unique blend of advertising kitsch and a more serious look
at the varied palette of North and Central American devotional folk art.

Website update

Press page is now live
http://austincantina.org/press.php

Also, our November special (kids eat free, and $5.00 late night menu) will continue through December.

Jefe

Thanksgiving Weekend

We closed on Thursday & Sunday to spend time with family and had friends and family from a half dozen states as well as overseas for Thanksgiving dinner.

Menu included 2 Turkeys (one from Thundering Hooves and the other one was deep fried), both brined overnight, wonderful Pumpkin Soup, Cornbread Stuffing with Blue Cheese, Mashed Sweet Potatoes, and Tequila Chocolate Cake.