Spotted at a barbershop in downtown Walnut Creek.
As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, a new Chinese restaurant has opened up in downtown Walnut Creek focusing on Hunan and Mandarin cuisine, Dragon’s Pond, located at 1353 Locust St. across the street from Lark Creek restaurant. The offical grand opening will happen as soon as they can get a permanent sign but it’s still open now for business. They also have a restaurant in Livermore. I received an email from one reader who wrote:
FYI, I went to the new Dragon’s Pond on Saturday night and was impressed. Family run, attention to detail, the decor is really nice including the bathroom! Food was fantastic and great wine list.
Here’s a view of their bar:
I had a chance to speak with the manager who told me they’re focusing on healthy fare by not using any additional MSG and keeping it low sodium compared to typical Chinese restaurants. And because they cook everything to order, they can make things as spicy or as mild as you want. They will validate public parking tickets for up to 2 hours, and offer 10% off for seniors.
If anyone has eaten here please let us know how it was. I’m looking forward to trying this out.
*As far as the previous Vietnamese restaurant Da Lat is concerned, the owners decided to focus on their other restaurant in Marin.
A public hearing is scheduled for Feb. 9th at 7pm at the Walnut Creek City Hall to consider tearing down the building at N. Broadway and Cypress, across the street from the Sprint store and rebuilding it with 2 stories, with a bridal salon on the first floor and office space on the second floor. Here is how the current building looks:
Looks like this was discussed last October. The notice mentions La Soie Bridal Salon as the current occupant, although I only remember a coin and gun shop there previously.
The George Bernard Shaw comedy, Arms and the Man is playing until Feb. 25 at the Lesher Center in Walnut Creek:
The master of wit and social comedy at his most entertaining and romantic. What makes a hero? What makes a good husband? Raina must choose between Captain Bluntschli, the practical man who prefers chocolates to cartridges and Sergius, the dashing hero of the mistaken cavalry charge that sent Bluntschli climbing into her bedroom window at night. Shaw’s most popular play is a charming tale of romance going awry with unexpected turns, mistaken identities and of course, the author’s always surprising opinions – on war and marriage, and everything else!
Located at 1813 Ygnacio Valley Rd. in the Rancho San Miguel area of Walnut Creek in the Ygnacio Valley shopping center, Daphne’s Greek Cafe also has locations in Pleasant Hill and San Ramon. You can see their menu here.
I believe this is the first restaurant I posted about in Walnut Creek outside of downtown. I need to get out there more often. My go-to Greek (Mediterranean) place downtown is Pomegranate as well as occasionally Babalou’s. Question, how do you pronounce Gyro? I pronounce it “jai-roh”. Is that wrong?
You can talk about whatever is on your mind – quality of life issues, a beautiful tree you spotted, scuttlebutt, or any random questions/thoughts you may have. I’ll open this thread every Friday at 5pm.
Downtown Walnut Creek has plenty of pizzerias:
and Lafayette shall not be forgotten:
So the Friday Question of the Day is about pizza. Everyone loves pizza right? Well, almost everyone I imagine. As much as I love the atmosphere at Skipolini’s or Pinky’s, if we’re going on taste I’m going to have to go with Pizza Antica in Lafayette hands down.
So what is your favorite pizza joint in Walnut Creek or Lafayette? If I’ve missed any please comment and I’ll add them in as well.
Walnut Creek has been planning on selling a parking lot located at Mt. Diablo Blvd. and N. Main St. for a while now. They have already received buyer proposals which are under evaluation and in February it will be discussed at the city council. Although the lot is rather small, it doesn’t get more prime than this; this is truly the heart of downtown Walnut Creek, across the street from Tiffany’s, and diagonally across from the new Neiman Marcus store.
Does anyone want to take a guess at how much this could go for? Does anyone have opinions on this one way or the other?
