Plum Celebrates 1st Year With Car Crash Re-enactment

Then… Out-of-control car slammed into Plum Restaurant's front door, shattering glass and twisting metal doors and window frames on Sept. 6. 2006.

A year ago last Thursday, Kostas Kantlis and his wife, Maria, the owners of Plum Restaurant, 47-39 Bell Blvd., Bayside, were congratulating themselves on the rousing success of their restaurant's opening night when just after 2:15 a.m. a driver lost control of his car and crashed into the restaurant's front door at the corner of Bell Boulevard and 48th Avenue. Twisted metal and shattered glass seemed to indicate that Plum's very existence was over before it had really begun.

The Kantlis couple wasn't about to let a little thing like a runaway car plowing through their front door set them back. They, and Plum, went on to have an exemplary first year in business. They celebrated Plum's first anniversary on Sept. 6, 2007 by reenacting the crash, strategically positioning a car with its hood nosing into the restaurant's open door.

Undeterred by the presence of a car that seemed to want to come inside and join the festivities, hundreds of well-wishers and friends stopped in to partake of great food and generous drinks. Plum's first anniversary was an outstanding success and capped a first year that bodes well for the future of the choice addition to the Bayside restaurant scene.

Now… Plum Restaurant's owners positioned a car to re-enact the accident of a year ago as well-wishers partook of great food and drink.