by Think In The Morning | Apr 11, 2016 | Sea Gull |
“My first body of work was in 1976, painting the 12 Fairy Tale portraits of 150 Mendocino locals for The Sea Gull Restaurant and Cellar Bar,” explains James Maxwell. The paintings were completed between 1976 and 1986. “The Sea Gull paintings...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 10, 2016 | Sea Gull |
Remembering the Sea Gull Restaurant An Afternoon at the Kelley House July 24, 2011 Click on this link to see the video: VIDEO ...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 8, 2016 | Sea Gull |
In my early years at the Sea Gull there was a time when I lived upstairs in a converted liquor storage room. I hired Orval, the plumber, and Ed, the tile setter, to help convert one end of the small room into a bathroom with a shower. It was small, dark and it picked...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 4, 2016 | Sea Gull |
Today is World Rat Day. It’s a pity this holiday didn’t exist when I owned the Sea Gull. I’ll admit to holding certain prejudices against rats, but I’ve learned to keep them to myself since World Rat Day was established over a decade ago. Before rats got their day...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 3, 2016 | Sea Gull |
One fringe benefit of working in a restaurant is watching the famous people that sometimes arrive unannounced hoping for a bit of normalcy. In my first year at the Sea Gull, I was relaxing at the house next to the restaurant when I got an excited call from the...
by Think In The Morning | Mar 29, 2016 | Sea Gull |
I had a restaurant in Mendocino, along the edge of the northern California coast. I took that from Isak Dinesen’s first line in Out of Africa. I changed it a bit. I highly recommend you read every single one of her stories. Mendocino lies at the southern end of the...
