Cheaper Make Your Own Pizzas - The Need for a Private Dining Room - How Can You Enjoy Some "Adult Time" at S&M? - and most importantly, WHY CAN'T WE GET ICE CREAM IN THE DINING ROOM?!?!

As Sal & Mookie's completes our sixth month of operation, we have learned a lot about what we have done right... what we have done not-so-right, what we have done flat out wrong, and what needs just a little bit of tweaking.  We have been so thankful to so many of you for your support, comments and criticisms.  If feedback is the breakfast of champions, Dan and I have had a country breakfast of huge proportions!

Here is what we have learned from you:

1. You love our pizzas, recognize the high quality and highly differeniated ingredients, but are concerned that you might need a second mortgage when choosing a half dozen ingredients on a build-your-own-pie.
2. You wish you could hold a private meeting at Sal & Mookie's and have a buffet set up for service.
3. You love taking your kids to the restaurant, but you stay away other nights because you don't want to be around a bunch of kids!
4. You would like us to deliver... at least to your office for lunch meetings.
5. You wish there was an "Adults Only" space... a bar and cocktail area where you can act YOUR age... not your kids!
6. And finally, you simply cannot understand how we could open such a fantastic restaurant with such extraordinary ice cream, and then NOT SERVE IT IN THE DINING ROOM!  You wonder "what are these guys THINKING!?!?!?)

OK, we hear you!  Here are our solutions:

1. We recognized the error in our ways, and we have dropped the prices of all our ingredients significantly... now you can build your own pizzas without the fear of a credit check. Click here for a full copy of the newly priced menu.
2. We have installed plush, velour curtains in the small side room.  When drawn, you can enjoy complete privacy from the outside world and show all the powerpoint slides you want while sipping on a cocktail and eating portobello fries.
3. Guess what?  Families don't take their children out to eat on weeknights!  This means Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights are the PERFECT time to take your spouse/boyfriend/girlfriend out for one of our fantastic pastas, world class NY style pizzas or grilled paninis.  We've got the candles, we've got the low lights, we've got the caraffe of wine.  You just need to bring your game... and we aren't talking about scrabble!
4. We now deliver lunch time catering orders of $100 or more.  We have all the tricks of the trade:  sandwich trays, hot pastas by the gallon, plates, serving pieces, ice, iced tea, dessert trays.  Download our catering menu here.  Give us a call.  It's that easy.
5. We are working on a major change to our physical plant... soon, we will convert the scoop shop area to an "Adults Only" space... a bar and cocktail area with plush furniture, a sit-down bar, access to the front outdoor patio and a cocktail hostess to see to all your needs.  And, since the front patio is far, far away from the rest of the restaurant and the dining deck, guess what?  We will allow smoking in this space.  See?  Now everyone is accomodated!
6. The second half of the change is moving the scoop shop back to what is currently the main bar.  Everything is going... and getting BIGGER.  The back bar will transform into a full blown soda fountain/scoop shop.  Barstools will accomodate the youngest of fans as they watch ice cream confections being made for the dining room.  WHAT DID WE JUST SAY?  THE DINING ROOM??  Yes, the dining room.  With the scoop shop in the center of the large dining room, we will be able to offer the full array of tasty ice cream treats to the entire dining room.  Finally, you can have your ice cream, and eat it at the table too!  Wow.  Seems so simple... yet the original layout of our restaurant, just didn't provide for it... but soon we will!!!

We hope you can see that we have been listening and have been busy ACTING upon the information you have shared.  It is our sole desire to be responsive, supportive restaurateurs, focused on the big picture of giving our guests what they want... and having some fun along the way.

Dan, Jeff, Jon, Andrew, Max, Tanya and all the Sal & Mookie's staff look forward to sharing these new features with you over the holidays... some are done (price changes), some are coming (bar/scoop switch) but all were made with you in mind.  Thank you.