La Fiesta Square, Lafayette
In September we learned that Caroline’s Salon would be relocating next to Chow within La Fiesta Square in Lafayette and they are now open. Check out their services here.
La Fiesta Square, Lafayette
In September we learned that Caroline’s Salon would be relocating next to Chow within La Fiesta Square in Lafayette and they are now open. Check out their services here.
Cristina Garcia, Author of King of Cuba:
Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
7:30pm – 8:30pm | $15Cristina Garcia is the author of six novels including Dreaming in Cuban, The Lady Matador’s Hotel, and The Aguero Sisters. King of Cuba is a darkly comic novel featuring a fictionalized Fidel Castro, an octogenarian Miami exile, and a rabble of Cuban voices.
Ms. Garcia is a visiting faculty in fiction at Saint Mary’s College MFA in Creative Writing.
She has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fourteen languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenhiem Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Hodder Fellowship to Princeton University and an NEA grant, among others.
Lafayette Town Center Parking Lot
Parking meters are becoming more popular in Lafayette as Lafayette Town Center is following the lead of La Fiesta Square and introducing parking meters. According to the meter description, there will be a three hour limit in effect 7 days a week from 9am to 9 pm.
Mr. Chin’s Hot Sauce:
Roundup Saloon
3553 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Friday, October 30th, 2015
9:00pm – 12:30amElectric music
35 Lafayette Cir, Lafayette
The bakery Cake. in La Fiesta Square in downtown Lafayette has closed. They opened over three years ago and I enjoyed their baked goods so it’s disappointing to see them go.
50 Lafayette Cir, Lafayette
Diablo Dish has the scoop that the trendy Walnut Creek coffee shop, Coffee Shop, is coming to downtown Lafayette where The Art Room is currently located. Earlier this year we learned that a new dodecagon shaped retail building was planned for this location but considering they are expected to open, “early 2016” it looks like they will be using the current space. Stay tuned…
From the Coffee Shop website:
Our mission is to celebrate exceptional coffee and coffee roasters by providing our guests the unique opportunity to try coffee roasted around the country, and the world. To have service that stands up to these exceptional coffees and compliment them with our own unique and innovative creations. To take coffee serious while having fun, and never stop experimenting.
3604 Mt. Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
The popup clothing store The Cashmere Sale is coming to downtown Lafayette (previously in Danville and Alamo) and will be open from October 24th through December 5th.
From an email:
For over 10 years, the Republic Clothing Group (based out of New York), has hosted Cashmere Sale pop up stores through out the United States. The Cashmere Sale features high quality cashmere sweaters (women’s and men’s), skirts, tops, pants, scarves, throws, robes and accessories – at wholesale prices. This limited time sale occurs each fall and this year, the East Bay Cashmere Sale will be held at 3604 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette (two doors west of Pizza Antica). This will be the East Bay Cashmere Sale’s 5th year (in 2011 it was held in Danville and in 2012, 2013, and 2014 it was held in Alamo). The East Bay Cashmere Sale has over 2000 customers on its mailing list who love their fashions and prices! Please join their mailing list http://thecashmeresale.com/ and visit the sale, which opens on Saturday, October 24th.
via Google maps
Over the past month there has been a lot of talk about how the San Francisco Bay Area Renters’ Federation (SFBARF) is planning to sue Lafayette over lack of affordable housing development, specifically as it relates to the changes at the Homes at Deer Hill project near the corner of Highway 24 and Pleasant Hill Rd. which resulted in a 300+ apartment complex turning into a 44 single family home development. Check out their website Sue the Suburbs here for more information.
Do you agree with SFBARF for suing Lafayette? Considering this development is about one and a half miles away from BART should they have chosen a different target, closer to BART instead? Or should they leave suburban Lafayette alone and focus on building up urban areas such as San Francisco?
Downtown Lafayette
Mt. Diablo Blvd. between First St. & Moraga Rd, Lafayette
Sunday, October 25th, 2015
8:00am | $30The Chamber of Commerce and the City of Lafayette are co-sponsors of the Run which is traditionally held on the last Sunday in October. Beneficiaries of the event are the local schools and the services and programs of the Chamber. The Lafayette Reservoir Run is the city’s most popular “family affair”, involving kids, parents, grandparents, and hundreds of serious runners from throughout the Bay Area. 2200-2500 participants compete in a 10k or 5k Certified Runs and a 2 mile run/walk for fun through the heart of the downtown, around the reservoir and back. Sprinters, walkers, the “stroller brigade” and many of Lafayette’s top four legged residents share the streets on that festive Sunday morning. Presented By: Lafayette Chamber of Commerce & City of Lafayette Event Date: Sunday, October 25, 2015 Start Location: Mt. Diablo Blvd. between First St. & Moraga Rd. Registration Opens: 6:30am Staggered Start Times: 2mi run/walk 8:00am, 5k Certified Run 8:30am , 10k Certified Run 8:45 am Race Descriptions:
- 5k Certified Race – flat, “chip” timed course, runners only (NO Dogs or Baby Strollers).
- 10k Certified Race – hilly, “chip” timed course around the reservoir, Dogs on Leash & Baby Strollers OK.
- 2 Miles Run/Walk for Fun – No Timing – Fun Run ONLY, Dogs on Leash & Baby Strollers OK
