1633 Bonanza St, Walnut Creek
The awning is now up at Cafecitos Cafe on Bonanza St. in downtown Walnut Creek. The opening can’t be far behind now, looks great! This cafe will feature South American cuisine, yum!
1633 Bonanza St, Walnut Creek
The awning is now up at Cafecitos Cafe on Bonanza St. in downtown Walnut Creek. The opening can’t be far behind now, looks great! This cafe will feature South American cuisine, yum!
photo by Flickr user mr.donb
The Walnut Creek city council recently passed an anti-smoking ordinance prohibiting smoking in condos and apartments, all of downtown and more according to the Contra Costa Times:
The City Council passed a strict secondhand-smoking ordinance Tuesday night that bans smoking in all multiunit residences, all of downtown, all recreational areas and all commercially zoned properties where there are outdoor dining areas or outdoor service areas, anyplace within 25 feet of entryways and operable windows, and in all public places. The council made an exemption, however, that does not require public or private golf courses to be smoke-free. And it doesn’t outlaw smoke from medical marijuana.
Do you support this strict smoking ordinance for Walnut Creek?
2364 Warren Road, Walnut Creek, CA
This is a guest post by Linnette Edwards, Associate Broker, Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate, whose website is www.MyHousingGuide.com. Find out more about this house here.
Saranap residents are proud of their idyllic-living legacy, so much so there’s even a book about this quaint neighborhood, “Saranap Then and Now.” Saranap Then was a getaway destination that attracted San Franciscans looking to spend their summers in the sunshine and warmer weather that is the hallmark of this village and its neighboring cities Lafayette and Walnut Creek. Saranap residents, or Saranapians some still call themselves, lived in cottages built among the area’s rolling green hills that at the time were generously populated with fruit and walnut orchards, livestock and barns.
The area was developed in the early 1900s as a railroad town primarily by Sam Naphtaly and Stephen Dewing. After some wrangling and a substantial land grant made by Naphtaly, it was determined the then town would be named after Sam’s mother Sarah. While it’s said that Saranap is no longer home to Naphtaly decedents, a Dewing decedent still resides in a family home located on Dewing Road. This is also where a piece of this neighborhood’s coveted history is for sale at 2364 Warren Road. This same plot of land has been held in the same family since the 1950s. The seller’s now grown children still live in the area and have fond memories of growing up in this unique and charming community, where they’re quick to recall running freely along country roads and through fields of walnut groves dotted with barns and chicken coops. Today the home is nestled in a quiet neighborhood that’s just a 20-minute walk from downtown Walnut Creek.
Read the rest and see more photos of the Warren Road house after the jump…
1323 Locust St, Walnut Creek
Back in February of last year I noted the closing of Studio Blue Digital Print and Copy and now The Nail Lounge has opened in its place on Locust St, across from Anthropologie.
Dance Fusion Studio
1277 Boulevard Way, Walnut Creek
Saturday, September 21st, 2013
11:30am – 12:30pm | Freedance is my passion and my joy. it is the best form of expression, medicine and transformation that i know.
my choreography is inspired by the music. i tend to gravitate to earthy rhythms from various genres across the globe.
my dance style is informed by Afro-Haitian, Modern, Jazz, Latin, Freestyle, a whole lotta love, and any random thing that happens in the moment. i can often be found sweating out my emotions at ecstatic dance in Oakland.
i invite you to join me for this free class, being offered every Saturday in September (and hopefully to resume in November.)
let’s shake it loose and be at home in our bodies.
Dick’s Sporting Goods is opening soon according to a sign on the former Bally Total Fitness building in Pleasant HIll. If they are opening there I’m not sure what’s going where the Dome movie theater used to be, anyone know?
1687 N. California Blvd, Walnut Creek
The eyebrow threading salon iBar is opening soon in another location (in addition to their Broadway Plaza location) right next to The Counter at the Mercer apartment complex on N. California Blvd. in downtown Walnut Creek. If I had to take a guess I imagine this is in preparation for when Broadway Plaza closes. This way they’ll still have a downtown Walnut Creek presence, and since the stores at Mercer are populated by so many salons this makes sense that they would move there.
Lafayette Art & Wine Festival:
Downtown Lafayette
Mt. Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Saturday, September 21st and Sunday, September 22nd, 2013
10:00am – 7:00pm (6:00pm Sunday) | FreeAward-winning Art, Wine and Music Festival. 4 Stages, 20 live bands, 250+ Artists, Kid-Zone, Great Food – and the largest selection of wine, beer and ale of any SF Bay Area Festival. FREE Admission. www.lafayettefestival.com/
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LafayetteFestival Two Days:
Saturday, September 15 — 10am – 7pm
Sunday, September 16 – 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.MUSIC LINE UP — by date & state:
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Art Stage – 50 Lafayette Circle10:30 – 12:00 Dominant 7 and friends
12:30 – 2:30 Voltones
3:00 – 4:30 Fleetwood Mask
5:00 – 7:00 Annie SampsonWine Stage – 3583 Mt. Diablo
10:30 – 12:00 Covers Cup Contest Winner
12:30 – 2:00 Other People’s Money
2:30 – 4:30 East Bay Mudd
5:00 – 7:00 Petty TheftPremium Wine Stage
12:00 – 1:45 Savanah Blue
2:00 – 4:00 Chubby’s All Stars
4:30 – 6:30 Mersey BeachMusic Line Up – Sunday, September 22, 2013
Art Stage – 50 Lafayette Circle11:30 – 1:00 Bob Athayde
1:30 – 3:30 Zebop!
4:00 – 6:00 The SpazmaticsWine Stage – 3583 Mt. Diablo
10:00 – 12:30 Red House All Stars
1:00 – 3:00 Aja Vu
3:30 – 6:00 The Sun KingsPremium Wine Stage
12:00 – 1:30 Spinout
2:00 – 3:30 Juice
4:00 – 6:00 Cover2Cover
23 Lafayette Cir, Lafayette
Back in May I noted that Roam Artisan Burgers would be opening in Lafayette Circle where A.G. Ferrari used to be and construction has finally begun for the planned October opening. I wonder if anything will change in the back patio area. I can’t wait to try out a Roam burger!
Spotted in front of Prima in downtown Walnut Creek, this is one sweet Corvette convertible.