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BRAVO! Italian Restaurant... Stay a While

7/20/2017

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When you decide on dinner at BRAVO!, it’s best to plan on spending the whole evening there. Not because the service is slow—far from it—but because the atmosphere is so welcoming and comfortable that the hours pass unnoticed. This is no accident: service manager Tanya Burns works hard to keep the complicated dance of restaurant service moving smoothly.

“For me, service ranks right up there with food,” Burns says. While she’s speaking, her eyes are constantly moving; scanning the dining room to spot any hiccups, glancing into the kitchen to check on progress, taking note every time a new customer walks in the door.

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Mom’s Dream Kitchen: Generations of Soul

7/5/2017

 
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One of the first things you’ll see as you walk into Mom’s Dream Kitchen (formerly Collins’ Dream Kitchen) is a large portrait of a gently smiling woman hung just to the right of the door. This is the founder’s mother, and the portrait now hangs as a reminder of the woman who used to sit just there, to the right of the door, greeting customers with a smile.

“[My mother] would dress up and come down here every Friday,” Ms. Sylvester Collins, founder of the restaurant, tells me. “She said ‘I got so many clothes I never wear out,’ so she’d dress up every Friday, sit right there at that door, and meet everybody that come in.”
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She passed away a few years back at the age of 93, but her presence still remains in the strong sense of family and legacy that is the very foundation of Mom’s Dream Kitchen.

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