From the Ground Up

An insider's look at opening a restaurant

Whether you’re opening your first restaurant or your fifteenth, it can be a stressful exercise in multi-tasking and adaptation to ever-changing circumstances. But as most restaurateurs will tell you, it’s also a profoundly gratifying experience. In the CRA’s newest online feature, From the Ground Up, we will follow first-time restaurateurs Henry and Simon de Vere White in the months leading up to the opening of their Sacramento restaurant, de Vere’s Irish Pub, slated to open in January 2009.