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🍽️ Food & BeverageJune 7, 2026
How Do You Make a Tiny Café Impossible to Miss?
What former La La Land Kind Café CFO Travis Wolf saw in a 125-square-foot Brooklyn original.
Mo Sall · on a DoneThat call between Travis Wolf and Loud Baby
🍽️ Food & BeverageMay 8, 2026
A musician's approach to running a restaurant
Yuichi Iida built Warude out of his actual life — Japanese-Mexican fusion, world roots music, and a decade of showing up. How a Bed-Stuy restaurant survived COVID and construction by being too specific to replicate.
Mo Sall · based on a conversation with Yuichi Iida