Saba in Emory Village Sends out SOS
Decatur Metro | June 15, 2011Heather refers us to this post on Saba’s Facebook page…
The Road is Open, The Sidewalk is Open, Please help us stay Open. We understand that many of you have been discouraged with the road work in front of Saba. We are open. For us to survive this nightmare, we need your help. Please visit us at Saba Emory. Without your patronage, you are looking at the last weeks of Saba in the Emory Village. Thanks for support over the years. We hope to see you soon.
I stopped eating there after I saw their last health score! It was sub-65.
Every meal I’ve had at SABA, Emory or Oakhurst, has been great. Emory is kind of out of the way, but I’ll have to make an extra effort.
I ate there a couple of weeks ago and had a delicious meal. There was a nice lunch crowd that day…I had no idea they were struggling. Good luck, Saba!
I’ve always thought that Saba should partner with Shield’s Meat Market in Emory and have a “shields” pasta with some of their sausage. I pick up Shield’s sausage almost weekly and make spaghetti with it. Makes for an incredible flavor. I just feel like the Saba Emory location is pretty week on variety and lunch choices than dinner options. Beefing up the dinner options on the menu might help.
Can you pick me some up?
Wouldn’t that be “porking” up the menu?
I think the food at Saba is not as good as the food at Figo. I’d love to help a local business – but you gotta serve really tasty food…
The pesto gnocchi app is wonderful. Big enough for a meal. Would hate to see Saba go.
Saba is the best thing Emory Village has going for it. We’ll make sure to eat there this week to help them stay afloat.
Panera is 100% better in every way.
Hmmm – really? I wonder how you are making that comparison. I guess Panera’s cinnamon bagels with hazelnut spread are better, but I’ll have to try their prosciutto and arugula salad with homemade blue cheese and olive oil chips next time…
Apples to Oranges
Panera’s cobb salad is the best I have eaten anywhere, and their breads and pastries are all splendid. Everything is fresh, too.
See, I think Emory Village has several things going for it (Rise and Dine, the aforementioned Shield’s, Doc Chey’s), but I would not list Panera among them.
Nothing against Panera – I think it has its time and place – but I think there’s usually something better to be found at that intersection.
You nailed it, Siv. Regrettably, unless you’re an Emory student the Village is an intersection, not a destination.
I would say that Rise N Dine is the best thing Emory Village has going for it, along with Doc Chey’s, Wonderful World burgers and Bad Dog Taqueria. Saba would also benefit from someone developing the row of shops to their south which stand mostly vacant and hideously ugly and unappealing to potential tenants with their yellow painted block exteriors.
LOVE, love, love Rise and Dine. It’s one of the few places I’ll leave ITD (Inside The city of Decatur) for.
ITD?? I like it!
Do I smell a new acronym being cooked up? Or has that one been around a while and I just missed it?
I know I made it up. Don’t know if it’s been made up and used by others!
I already spread it to a few others- you will soon overhear people using the term out and about!
Um, where’s the “C”?
It’s a play on “ITP”, inside the perimeter which is widely used by folks inside the perimeter. (I think folks OTP just say “downtown” or “in the city” with horror). So ITP, ITD. But ITD doesn’t really work because the Decatur mailing address goes way wider than the City of Decatur. I don’t know if it’s still true, but some folks in Druid Hills used to have a Decatur mailing address. So it SHOULD be ITCD, but that isn’t a play off of ITP, so I use ITD. Well, I’ve used it for the last day. I guess I could be persuaded to say ITCD but I might get mixed up and say “ITDC” which be mistaken for “inside (the) DeKalb County”.
Still true. I’m in Druid Hills (the very edge) but I have a Decatur mailing address. I’m even in 30030. But soul-wise, I’m Decatur all the way.
Oh I understood the play on words. My point was that the “c” is vital. As you said, the ITCD gets a bit too convoluted. There are too many words to make it work exactly but what about ICD? Or does that sound too much like OCD?
ICD could work. But the more I think about it, the more I like ITD, as in “Inside The Decatur”. Like “The Perimeter”, “The Donald”, “The Southside”, “The ‘burbs”, “The City” (New York usually), “The Village” (Greenich Village). The Decatur. The grammar books tell us that the use of the definite article (the) instead of the zero article (no article) in front of a place name indicates an institution, specificity, definiteness, all of which fit Decaturites’ view of their city!
Everytime I see an SOS like this, I think of Wordsmith’s (or was it Wordsworth’s?) on the Square. It seems to be the beginning of the end. Even a huge, loyal fan base can’t help if the business model doesn’t work. Not that I know what a business model is, but that’s why I never pursue any of my fantastic entrepreneurial ideas–a versatile children’s shoe store, in case anyone forgot.
I would recommend expanding your client base a bit and making it a versatile children and dog shoe store.
Hmm. If I add double strollers, dollar items, and on-the-lawn parking, is it a slam dunk? I don’t need to understand business models or social marketing because it’s such a sure thing? It’ll be so lucrative that I can give myself flexible work hours and walk and roll my children to school whenever the bell schedule deems it appropriate?
Add real NYC-style bagels. My business model is so great that I can afford to import New York City upstate reservoir water on a daily basis, (the secret ingredient to good bagels).
Ha! Scroll down…
I think the comparison is unfair (though the posting does come across as dire). Saba may have been doing just fine prior to the commencement of road construction, but now they need to send out a special request to their customers to get them back into the habit of eating there. Construction makes it next to impossible to bring in new customers. If your regulars stop coming in, you’re dead.
I don’t think it’s the business model, I think it’s more likely the relentless, endless construction project. I frequent the dry cleaner, the CVS, Doc Chey, and it has been grueling.
I’m not going to go to the Saba in Emory when the one in Oakhurst is just right down the road.
I know you’re all about the kid’s shoes, but I was a little surprised to not see a request from you in the fantasy lease story, for a bagel shop. Have you given up all hope?
Dang! That was for Karass…
Oh, no! I forgot too. WE NEED GOOD BAGEL SHOP!
Go back to New York, Groupie
There are two excellent bagel shops at Toco Hill.
Ouch- 72 now, last score 59, prior score 78
http://atlanta.digitalhealthdepartment.com/_templates/22/Food/_report_full.cfm?fsimID=333014&domainID=22
I love Shane but these scores are disgraceful.
83 in Oakhurst- why the big difference? Prior scores are mostly all 80s and 90s.
Grrr . . .
Yikes. Yes, a 78 on a RECHECK is absolutely disgraceful.
I’m in the food business (as a chef, a manager and a certified food safety instructor for a fortune 400 company) and have been for decades. Something is critically wrong with a restaurant if they can’t come up higher than a 72 on a recheck. For the record, if they had had below a 70 AGAIN, they would have had to close up shop immediately. Literally, as in “close your doors right now and don’t admit any customers.” That’s how badly the kitchen is being run.
Based on the health scores alone, the place has fundamental infrastructure issues. Blaming it on construction is unethical.