On 6/27/07, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/27/07, Amit Varma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/nyregion/27pearl.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
The article says that the suit was over more than just the menu.
"...copies "each and every element" of Pearl Oyster Bar, including the
white marble bar, the gray paint on the wainscoting, the chairs and
bar stools with their wheat-straw backs, the packets of oyster
crackers placed at each table setting and the dressing on the Caesar
salad."
The "look-and-feel" as it were. Which brings to mind the AAPL vs. MSFT
case from the 90's.
Except she says she copied Swan's in San Francisco, and IMO Swan's has
similar elements from an earlier restaurant in Palo Alto named (wait
for it...) Pearl's Oyster Bar.
What I really want is the recipe for potato salad from Chibcha's in
Catheys Valley, and dry braised green beans from Hsi Nan the Little in
Menlo Park.
Dammit.
-- Charles
