delicatesse

Tesse is short for délicatesse, which can translate as either “delicacy” or “charcuterie.”

The restaurant, named for the French word for “délicatesse,” the French term used for charcuterie, is based on Francois’ idea to create a bar that serves charcuterie.

The name is a nod to the French word délicatesse, which means “delicate.”

In the early modern period, for example, an aspect of délicatesse, or refinement, was introduced; now virility needed to be expressed through a controlled and gymnastic bodily grace, by means of activities like dancing or Casanova-like lovemaking.

And this is the deliverance: "Fear grace—fear elegance, civilization, delicatesse, Fear the mellow sweet, the sucking of honey-juice; Beware the advancing mortal ripening of nature, Beware what precedes the decay of the ruggedness of States and men."