Saus

From Renee’s mouth: (post 1 of 3)

(TLDR: Renee had an emotional breakdown yesterday)

The next time I’m in Boston, Saus won’t be there. Sure, there will be the Somerville location. And I love Bow Market, I do. But that was the Saus that Tanya, Chin, and I opened as business owners making a practical horizontal move.
That’s not the Saus where we grew up. We had no business opening a restaurant. In 2011 We were 24 and had a cumulative 1.5 years of restaurant experience between us. We won over the owner of the Yankee Publishing Building by bringing him our liege waffles. Just imagine 3 young kids pitching this real estate titan. Absolutely terrified given the stakes. And the titan is leaned back in his chair, going to town on the waffles, crumbs and pearl sugar all over his shirt, the conference table …he ate all (six?) that we had brought him, and agreed to give us a lease. Philip DeNormandie is a legend.

We had this vision for a hip late night fry and waffle shop that would eventually become a nationwide chain grossing tens of millions of dollars in revenue per year…
(LOL in our defense that was a pretty trendy dream in 09-11)

A few months in, and about a thousand requests for pizza or burgers—or fish sandwiches— later, the vision died. We expanded our offerings and decided we would just shut up and try to figure out how to run a restaurant.

YOU’RE INVITED!!!!! 🥳

SUNDAY, DEC. 22 11:30-5pm, our last day of service. We are blowing it up and throwing a PARTY! We can’t go out without a bang. It’s been 13 years for f¥cks sake.

What to expect: our menu available (as much as is left of it). Champs! Wine! SHOTS! We’ll drink with you. We’ll have some baller pours. Some mid pours. You can buy shots for the staff. It’s last day, baby! Rules are out the window. 🪟

Come try to summon Larry. Maybe he’ll f¥ck some s**t up.

The only rule: we’re here to celebrate. Not mourn. But if we cry- no calling us out. It’s our party and we’ll cry if we want to. 💋

Oh. And if you worked here and see this and live within reason and DON’T come, we’ll sic Larry after you. 👻 (someone please bring a Ouija Board)

More than the food, Saus has always been about the people! It’s the crew through the years and our guests that made us.

I’ll be going through my own archives to post, but if anyone out there has pictures or videos of yourself in Saus- eating, working, visiting- please DM or email them to [email protected]

I want to celebrate everyone who made us US.

Ps. Come to our last party: Sunday, Dec 22 11:30am-8pm. Come visit, hugs, tears, laughter, stories, toasts, shots? LOVE YA’LL (and if you’re reading this and think- this doesn’t mean me- yes- I mean YOU! Anyone who cares about Saus. Come in. Tell us who you are. And we’ll trade stories. Ask me (Tanya) about my fall down the stairs in gravy.)

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