I’m aware that the world is spinning off of its axis at the moment, and that the United States Senate thinks it’s supposed to be the only entity that gets government-sponsored health insurance. Despite this, I’m here with a search engine seeding project. Anatoly, the Planet Waves web developer in the Ukraine, helped put up a little website for my friend Dominick Vanacore.
By the grace of what must have been an actual miracle, I acquired the domain DominicksCafe.com last week. I only checked about six times to make sure that I hadn’t misspelled it and that it was really available. Apart from the fact that I have kitchen privileges, this is an interesting place because it’s staffed almost entirely by an extended family with four generations still in the area. Everyone who works there is a cousin and nobody but me knows what kind; they just say they’re cousins while I do the math and determine that somebody is somebody’s second cousin once removed.
The cafe is next to Dream Weaver’s salon, which Rita started 30 years ago and which has taken up a number of residences. Dominick is now his mom’s business partner in this venture and it’s a thriving enterprise.
The site we’ve created for them is designed as a starter kit (only involving the restaurant, tho obviously the hair salon needs a web presence), till we get together the menus and other information, and set up a blog and a photo gallery and twitteleh. Please let me know how it looks on your iPhone and/or Blackberry, if you decide to turn it on. The audience we’re going for is tourists searching from their cars for someplace interesting and friendly to eat and hang out.
Yum! For that antipasto alone, I’d pull off the highway. (She says trundling off to make brekky…)
Very cool — makes me want to come to Kingston and have a cup of coffee. Nice clean looking webpage – very inviting!
7 Towers:
I know how you feel. I’ve been there too and Dominick’s is a warm, family-feeling place, as Eric says, run by generations, including cousins AND the baby running from the kitchen to the dining room and the hotel lobby next door.
It was unforgettable there, especially after a light snow, the streets are freezing with a moist cold. Coming in to Dominick’s for a cup of coffee that winter was a welcome balm, like a hot fire in the living room fireplace on Christmas day.
This cafe has excellent food as well as a comfortable and interesting atmosphere. The 2 days we visited with Eric my daughter and I had breakfast , lunch and dinner there and all meals were top notch and thoroughly enjoyed by us both.
Eric , Julia saw this post and asked “Hey are we ever going to go back there ?” It’s a beautiful and interesting place…