Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Almost there...

The paint is almost finished, the equipments have been delivered last week and are being installed. The light fixtures are being hooked...
There is still a lot of work but we are almost there...! ;)

Friday, November 11, 2011

Now hiring

We are now looking for assistant baker, assistant manager and front of the house positions, in both full and part time.

To apply, send your resume to contact@chocopainbakery.com


Sunday, October 16, 2011

story of a beautiful facade

From this...









...to this!

And it is not yet done! :)

From now on, I won't show anything more from the inside, let's keep the surprise for the end result!

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Weekly update

Busy week ... a couple of things that highlighted it:

- a very friendly and insightful meeting with Olivier, the owner of Mille-Feuille a new, amazing Patisserie in the village. http://www.millefeuille-nyc.com
- A great day bread baking at PQ Bleecker street with my former FCI instructor Karen and her crew! Thanks for welcoming me Anna, Jo, Jonathan and Karen!
- A very kind donation of wine cases (explanation to come later) by Phil, the friendly and helpful owner of the liquor store on Park and 7th. Thanks Phil!
- Good design discussions with Erica, my contractor's designer
- Construction wise, a lot of progress, the electrical challenge we had earlier seems to be resolved thanks to Robert Jenny, my contractor and his electrical contractor, Mike. Electrical work is now progressing.

- the railing of the staircase has being changed, for a nice elegant black iron railing
staircase and railing before
staircase and railing after


- Tiles are done. The last part was in the counter / service area


- the "template" of the countertop in the service / counter area has been done, necessary step before the counter is cut to the actual dimensions and installed in a couple of days...



- The inside window has been installed, allowing the future customers to look into the bakery, watching bakers shape the breads, loading and unloading the oven ...

- the walk-in cooler was installed by Ray, the refrigeration/ HVAC guy