http://santafe-downtown.com/santa-fe-art/santa-fe-cafe-phenix/ A few choice words on the digs and doings of Downtown Santa Fe. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:50:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://santafe-downtown.com/santa-fe-art/santa-fe-cafe-phenix/#comment-384 Jane Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:12:04 +0000 http://malissakullberg.talkingsantafe.com/?p=829#comment-384 Hence the name Cafe Phenix...Rising from the ashes! Much love ! Hence the name Cafe Phenix…Rising from the ashes!
Much love !

]]> http://santafe-downtown.com/santa-fe-art/santa-fe-cafe-phenix/#comment-383 Jane Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:10:37 +0000 http://malissakullberg.talkingsantafe.com/?p=829#comment-383 So ...I am the owner of Cafe Phenix...I just saw this the other day and it brought tears to my eyes...Thank you for the kind words and keeping the spirit of the Phenix alive...I remember the day Steve wrote that piece on Facebook. He was upset, as we were, and his emotion comes threw his words. To be fair, we would have never gotten anywhere with out the support of many amazing people in Santa Fe. If not for them there would have no music, food or amazing coffee. So this is bitter sweet. The back story is that our partner and friend took us for everything, and when we refused to pay his back taxes from the time when the shop was Le Flip...he shut down the Cafe! When I mean shut down, I mean he took everything out of the space, trashed it and hid out avoiding our lawyers and judgment that required him to return everything. When we reopened it was ONLY because of support of friends and family, even strangers came and made donations to help us get on our feet! It was amazing and I will never forget it or them as long as I live! I am so grateful to have had the pleasure of meeting all of them, making them coffee in the mornings and sharing my family with them. Ultimately the damages was done. We could not financially recover from the losses we took, and with the confusing situation we lost patrons, sleep and a lot of money! We hoped and prayed it would be okay, but it wasn't! There were times we felt as though we could have had more success if we had alcohol but in the end ...it was what it was! We loved our community, our patrons, our artists and hope that they only loved it as much as we did. As hard as it was we had to close. Our partners actions left us in huge debt, homeless and with the lack of customers we could not get past the financial burden of an ongoing lawsuit. We miss it so much. We appreciated all the help and love more than anyone will ever know. It changed our lives and we will never forget it or the people! So …I am the owner of Cafe Phenix…I just saw this the other day and it brought tears to my eyes…Thank you for the kind words and keeping the spirit of the Phenix alive…I remember the day Steve wrote that piece on Facebook. He was upset, as we were, and his emotion comes threw his words. To be fair, we would have never gotten anywhere with out the support of many amazing people in Santa Fe. If not for them there would have no music, food or amazing coffee. So this is bitter sweet.
The back story is that our partner and friend took us for everything, and when we refused to pay his back taxes from the time when the shop was Le Flip…he shut down the Cafe! When I mean shut down, I mean he took everything out of the space, trashed it and hid out avoiding our lawyers and judgment that required him to return everything.
When we reopened it was ONLY because of support of friends and family, even strangers came and made donations to help us get on our feet! It was amazing and I will never forget it or them as long as I live! I am so grateful to have had the pleasure of meeting all of them, making them coffee in the mornings and sharing my family with them.
Ultimately the damages was done. We could not financially recover from the losses we took, and with the confusing situation we lost patrons, sleep and a lot of money! We hoped and prayed it would be okay, but it wasn’t! There were times we felt as though we could have had more success if we had alcohol but in the end …it was what it was! We loved our community, our patrons, our artists and hope that they only loved it as much as we did. As hard as it was we had to close. Our partners actions left us in huge debt, homeless and with the lack of customers we could not get past the financial burden of an ongoing lawsuit.
We miss it so much. We appreciated all the help and love more than anyone will ever know. It changed our lives and we will never forget it or the people!

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