Just a couple of things I noticed……..
Koon Thai Kitchen:
Is opening in the old Curry House spot:
Insert joke about yet another Thai restaurant here…… Seriously, San Diego can always use another "good" Thai Restaurant. I don't think we need another Americanized, dumbed down, Thai restaurant. I'm wondering what this will be?
Imperial Mandarin moves…. sort of:
Right before leaving for Turkey and Greece, I noticed the sign for Imperial Mandarin was taken down. I thought that perhaps the long time Convoy restaurant had closed down. After returning from vacation, I took a drive down Convoy and noticed that Imperial Mandarin had simply given up the space for the larger half of the restaurant and is still around.
I've never been a big fan of Imperial Mandarin, but I'll admit a twinge of sadness when I believed the place had closed.
An interesting coincidence (I think):
Driving past Halmouny, I noticed that the location that was the original location and became the catering/panchan outlet when the restaurant moved next door had become something called…..
Sushi, Roll Depot. Depot? Doesn't depot mean something along the lines of a storage facility or transit station? I'm not sure about you, but I'm not really keen on eating sushi from a depot. Turns out that the folks involved with Halmouny is trying to get into the sushi business.
And just by coincidenceI drove up to Plaza del Sol to see what was going on with Nam An (it's still not open),, and noticed that Dokdo; a "Hwe", Korean sushi/sashimi restaurant (one day I'll do a post on the Hwe Dop Bop), was now advertising…..
"Convoy Tofu"…… So Grandmother's Tofu is serving sushi and Dokdo Sushi is serving Soon Doufu? Hmmmm…..
Wow I wasn’t a huge fan of Curry House but I admit was very sad to hear it go. Maybe Coco Ichibanya will expand to SD. They’ve had one in Torrance since last year.
Hi Dennis – CCI has been on my list since they’ve opened. My friend back home in Hawaii love the place(s) – I think there a couple of locations in HNL.
I like re-discovering the neighborhood after coming back from a trip!
haha, I just went to Halmouny tonight for dinner and noticed their new sushi venture. I wonder if it’ll be similar to the other korean owned sushi places like Nozomi.
Hi Kat – I was quite surprised at all the changes in such a short time.
Hi jason – For some reason I’m thinking mre like fast food sushi….
OMG, I love hwe do bap!
Convoy St. seems to be having a lot of turnaround…
Gosh, and I wanted to go to Curry House again to try some other stuff! Oh well!
Hi Rosa – I guess I’ll do that post one of these days…… if I can find the photos!
Hi CC – There are still something like 10 locations in LA/OC….. Personally, CH was never a favorite of mine.