In better days, warmer ones at that, the staff at Blackberry's out on Watchung Avenue giving passerby some sweet iced tea. I liked Blackberry's. It had a yellow and purple outside and a rather funky soul albums hanging and posted on the walls motif inside. The folks working there were pleasant; the food was good. The prices were very reasonable.
Then came Gordon Ramsay and his Kitchen Nightmares crew. "Let's paint this place a depressing grey! Let's set up the dining room as if it's a high class kind of place! Get that Motown out of here!" Apparently there was in-fighting amongst the staff at the restaurant, but I never saw that during my meals taken there. I do know that parking issues might play into a lack of business.
But, as far as I'm concerned, Ramsay killed it. I did an online search and, while he supposedly rescues businesses already in trouble, the majority of his "rescues" have gone out of business within a year or two of his involvement. Yikes!
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