block of thai

[jfb]

There's a block in downtown Mountain View that's almost all restaurants, and almost all Asian restaurants, and when I moved here had both Amarin Thai Cuisine and Thai-rific, like two doors away from each other, which seemed excessive to me, especially since Amarin had good food and a full vegetarian menu, and Thai-rific had slow service and flies the one time I went in, but hey, if they're both doing okay, who am I to argue? And down on the corner there was a bar and grill that flopped.

Then later Amarin expanded into the storefront next door--same restaurant, same menu, two adjacent but not connected spaces. And down on the corner there was an Italian restaurant that flopped. And then last time I went downtown before the big trip, the Chinese restaurant down the block had closed and Amarin had moved one of its instances into the much bigger space that the Chinese restaurant had vacated, and the old Amarin had been converted to a vegetarian-only Amarin that almost nobody was eating at when I looked inside. Thai-rific was still there, Amarin was three times the size it used to be, and down on the corner there was a steakhouse that flopped.

Anyway, this weekend when I went downtown I was pleased to see that the ill-fated space down on the corner had been transformed into what, really, that block has always been crying out for: Another Thai restaurant. Best of luck to them.

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[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

There was a block like that near the University of Chicago, and within a 3 block radius of it I think the total went up to seven. Yet there was only one Chinese restaurant in the entire area, and it was really really bad.

hey

[talking-sock.livejournal.com]

It's Fremont, I mean the one where I work, not the one in the Bay. It has a ridiculous number of Thai restaurants that keep thriving. Others only seem to do ok.

I'm heading to sleep now, catch you later, I guess.
Lynn

[forgetyourstems.livejournal.com]

I wish we could get some vegetarian restaurants.

Indiana just loves meat....and fat.

-Amy
random person who was looking for ways to fix her template (paid user)

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you know, in a socialist planned economy, Thai vegetarian restaurants would be evenly distributed among the population, instead of allowed to flourish willy-nilly wherever they happen to pop up.

Hope the template works out.

[artname.livejournal.com]

Last time I walked down that part of Casro Street one of the Thai places had barkers trying to convince me to eat there. It remonded me of the Past Glory that Was Times Square. Except fewer tits.

[(Anonymous)]

In Providence there was a block with two Thai restaurants owned by the same people and offering the same food, but one had cloth tablecloths and napkins and higher prices.

-B

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Mmm, cloth.