The Rick's Café
There's nothing like the eagerness and "can do" attitude if one has just opened a business...shortly after we opened a young Englishman walked into Rick's. "Eccentric parents" was his explanation for his first name - Maximillion. He was in the(...)
Rick's was 3 months old on June 1. I can remember the first days vividly - the cold nights before we had our augmented electricity, fireplaces that smoked, two barstools and no furnishings on the first floor. What we did have - the ground floor beautifully appointed, the piano, a qualit(...)
It all started back in 1993. After 8 years in Tokyo I was getting ready to start working for the foreign service arm of the Department of Commerce. I was surprised I wasn't assigned to the Embassy in Tokyo, but excited about going to Prague, Czech Republic after a year of language train(...)
Thanks to all the great publicity we've had people are making detours to Casablanca just to come to Rick's. Others happen upon the restaurant by chance. And some seem destined to be here. It's starting to be the opposite from the film - instead of trying to get OUT of Ca(...)
It's been nearly two weeks now since the "results" of Election 2004 were announced. Shock, outrage, disappointment, cynicism, anger…what other emotions? Oh yeah, sadness.<br /> Close…yes too close.<br /> I've been unable to p(...)
We've started the New Year right by revising our menu and adding some interesting specials -pheasant fricassee with braised red cabbage and a mushroom strudel just to name two. Mushroom strudel made the menu in a fun way which illustrates Rick's spontaniety and the adap(...)
Rick's celebrated it's first anniversary on March 1…in many ways it seems like yesterday. I can remember vividly the anxiety and mixed emotions I felt then. I had been working on the project for more than two years, and for the most part I worked alone. I dev(...)
Spring cleaning at the website. Regular readers will notice our "less is more"look, which it really is with all previous articles still accessible through the tab “previous entries.” I’ve been blogging away in mySalon privé&(...)
