2 posts tagged “photography”
when you work with great people and great food.
As I mentioned in my last post I have spent an enormous amount of time event shooting for my dear friend's grand opening events of their new restaurant Perche' No Pasta & Vino. Ras did the video documentary while I shot the restaurant, food and people.
This shot is an action shot of the line, that is Chef David with his son Chris in the foreground and his other son Alex in the back prepping.. This was during the madness of one of the private VIP parties they threw prior to the public grand opening. But i have to say, madness and all I LOVED every second of it.
I've known the owners David and Lily Kong now for about 14 years, ever since they opened their first restaurant on lower Queen Anne. Chef David is an amazing Italian Chef, his food is the kind of food that you dream about long after you've finished eating it, and Lily is the hostess with the mostess. She remembers every guest that enters their restaurant and makes frequent orbits to chat it up with her diners and share humorous tales of their adventures. They are a super dynamite couple... you can't help but love them to pieces.
Obviously, they are not Italian. The story of how their restaurant got its name is a cute one.
When they decided to open an italian restaurant, people began to ask them "But David and Lily, why an italian restaurant and not an asian restaurant??"
Their reply was simply "Perche'No!" Which in Italian means "Why not."
You will not find fusion cuisine in their restaurant. You will find
authentic rustic italian food and handcrafted spirits. David and Lily make frequent trips to
Italy to bring back inspired recipes, 100 year old balsamic vinegars,
the finest grappa, and gems of Italy's vineyards. Their food has
heart and soul. It has real love in every bite, and you can taste it.
Ras and I got to sit in one of the balcony VIP seats for the public Grand Opening. It was sooo nice. Our dinner was amazing, we ended up with a dessert wine and handcrafted spirit tasting after our meal, then Lily came up and opened a bottle of sweet Asti for us all to toast. In a word... we left stuffed and spoiled. I can't wait to go back!!!
Thank you Motoed for the invite! So now the once non-blogger adds yet another to the list.
So far I'm liking the digs, although the "design" templates could use a little help. I'm sorry to say, they are pretty well... cheesey. It would be nice to have some more contemporary and stylized version to choose from. I read on someone elses blog that there should be a contest for some new ones. That's not such a bad idea, good community interaction and some more templates to choose from. I wonder if the option exists to fully customize your Vox blog... or if it ever will. That would be sweet. I should probably explore a bit more before I start criticizing the hell out of the place. Overall, it seems pretty comfortable and easy to use. Easy is good.
I'd say more, but I have about 10 pounds worth of heirloom tomatoes and other various food items to play with today. I've spent the last 4 days doing documentary and event photography for the grand opening of my dear friends new restaurant Perche'No Pasta & Vino, so I have alot of catching up to do between sorting through some 1200 shots from these past few days, processing them and getting to the food props I have on hand. Whew!
