Description: On November 6th, 2022, Aunt Mary's Cafe opened its doors for one last time, ending an era of about 14 years as a breakfast and lunch joint (with a couple of attempts to add dinner) in the Temescal neighborhood. The last few weeks leading to the last day were filled with emotions for all of
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AUNT MARY'S CAFE IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED AS OF 11/07/22
On November 6th, 2022, Aunt Mary’s Cafe opened its doors for one last time, ending an era of about 14 years as a breakfast and lunch joint (with a couple of attempts to add dinner) in the Temescal neighborhood. The last few weeks leading to the last day were filled with emotions for all of us, staff and customers alike. We had been down to the barebone of staff working days in days out for months, due to the employment shortage, yet all of us came in to work with such an abundant energy — the driving force
Jack and I had always been thinking of putting together an Aunt Mary’s Cafe cookbook, ever since we had become established in the neighborhood, but it was always in the back burner, together with other projects that we wanted to do for the cafe but less priority than, say, hiring a new staff, doing an emergency store run, or trying to find somebody to fix one of the waffle irons or the refrigerators… Anyway, those last two weeks had confirmed for us that we need to sustain the legacy we had started, through