This is a part of 'project 110, going back and re-filling', writing is happening 8ish months after the date.
Cafe Shilpee isn't really a restaurant. Scratch that, wasn't really a restaurant in April/May, but later they started professionalizing it and turning it into a 'real' restaurant.
What it was is a canteen for the staff of Shilpee theater, then somebody decided if they created a cheap temporary structure, they could use existing manpower and kitchen resources to make some money, and that's how the place came to be about. When I first started going to the place in early 2023, it was highly affordable although not fully professionalized, and the menu was a threadbare collection of whatever was available and the cook was in the mood to cook. It wasn't a place to go for food, it was somewhere you went while you waited for a friend, or to read a book while waiting for a theater show to begin, or to sneak some doobies in relative openness. The food wasn't the top class, but one couldn't expect it out of an establishment of this sort either.
Then within the matter of months, the prices almost doubled, without corresponding increase in quality or service. Surely there's a segment of the population that is happy to pay and enjoys the service, or perhaps they want to create a distinction between canteen services and restaurant services, but it's unclear to me what the final goal is, because...it's not worth the money. Nuh uh. For their new prices, one can go to real, professional kitchen restaurants and have food made for you, in a competitive sense.
Not going to give a rating here because I'm curious what comes of it in the future.
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