Va de Vi, located at 1511 Mount Diablo Blvd. next to Tiffany’s in downtown Walnut Creek, specializes in Californian, Asian and Tapas-style cuisine with a nice wine selection and offers outdoor seating. Named to the SF Chronicle’s Top 100 Bay Area restaurants 7 years running, Va de Vi is one of Walnut Creek’s finest restaurants, albeit pricey. Any recommended dishes?
The grand opening for Nothing Bundt Cakes has been pushed back to Feb. 1, although they expect to open on Jan. 20th for those who just can’t wait. Previously it was reported that they would be opening on Jan. 10.
Check out the broken window at Thirteen Salon located on Locust St. next to Mr Lucky’s Bar & Grill. Scuttlebutt going around is that a patron there may have kicked it in one night. As of today the window has been replaced, although it’s just another in a long list of incidents involving bars and nightclubs in downtown Walnut Creek. Since this isn’t confirmed maybe it was just a freak accident?
Not as cool as the other Sasa door of the day, this one is at the front entrance to Sasa Restaurant in downtown Walnut Creek. The “S”-shaped door handle is a nice touch.
The green fencing has finally come out at the future Anthropologie store at the corner of Locust St. and Mt. Diablo Blvd. in Walnut Creek. As you can see all the windows have been removed. I look forward to seeing what it will look like when it’s finished. As noted previously, it’s scheduled for completion sometime in 2012.
Down Family Lane, located at the backside of Broadway Plaza across from U Threads has closed its doors around Christmas time Beyond the Creek has learned. For any fans out there not to worry as they will still be available online.
Quick note, a Coming Soon directory of stores and restaurants opening soon in Walnut Creek and nearby areas is now available on the right side of this blog. If anyone knows of anything new opening up please leave a comment or shoot me an email to tips@beyondthecreek.com thanks.
Nestled between Extreme Pizza and the Cheese Steak Shop, towards the back, at 1628 Cypress St. in downtown Walnut Creek will soon be a new CrossFit gym, Walnut Creek CrossFit. It should be open sometime in February. There is already one other Walnut Creek CrossFit gym, CrossFit Sweat Shop, and one on the Pleasant HIll/Walnut Creek border, Diablo CrossFit, but this one is in a prime downtown location.
From their website:
In a sentence, our mission is to provide coaches with the skills, experience, expertise, equipment, knowledge and dedication to our clients so that they may achieve their physical fitness goals no matter how big or small.
But to elaborate, here at CrossFit Walnut Creek, our passion is fitness. We don’t find this to be a chore or a mandatory regimen that takes time out of our day – this is our playground and we have more than 3,500 square feet in which to play! We love to be here. We love to swing, climb, jump, row and lift heavy things for their own sake…because it makes us feel good. We also enjoy the benefit of added strength, speed, agility, coordination, flexibility, endurance, power, stamina, accuracy and balance. We have no greater desire than to ignite that fire under the feet of every person that walks in the door with the idea that they might want to energize themselves and take their youth back. This is a place where energy runs high, support runs deep and fun is our main objective. We want you to come back because youwant to not because you are a slave to some resolution or feel that you have to. For our trainers and members, this is a way of life, not just a goal or a 6 week plan. Care to join us?
Disclosure: I am a happy CrossFit member at a nearby gym.
The Ballet School, located at 1357 N. Main Street in downtown Walnut Creek, has been in business for over 30 years, “one of the longest running businesses in existence on North Main Street”. From their website:
Our approach to the teaching of dance recognizes both the demands of the art at the professional level and the pure enjoyment dance offers to those students who may not aspire to a dance career. In a school dedicated to the highest standards of dance training, the atmospheres of our classes are friendly, and our faculty is supportive to the varied goals of our students.
Whatever those goals are; career, personal growth, or perhaps just fun and exercise, The Ballet School offers training and guidance to help every student develop his or her potential, one-step at a time.
Our students have opportunities to display their training and talent in performances. All students in the academic level may participate in our annual School Demonstration. More advanced students are given the opportunity to dance with the school’s affiliated company, The Ballet Joyeux, both in yearly concerts as well as in a full length ballet.
The Ballet School also offers private coaching, as well as special classes for adults and children in the Theatre Arts.
I imagine this is geared for kids, if anyone has been there please let us know how it was.
