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I just happened to be looking in the ScoutSomerville. Among the news is a couple of upcoming restaurant openings. The spot where Johnny D's used to be? It's becoming a poke joint. The spot that used to be Diva? A sushi restaurant.
For those not counting, that will bring us from zero to five raw-fish restaurants in Davis Square, in the span of just a few years. And seriously: I love sushi, but that's getting excessive. It reminds me painfully of a few years back, when a bunch of froyo places opened in rapid succession, competed hard, and all went out of business.
I don't actually expect things to get quite that dire this time around (sushi being a necessity of life, some will survive), but seriously -- I wish folks had a little more imagination. As I mentioned last week, I expect something like Transit -- Asian-styled small plates -- would do just fabulously in Davis Square, providing more variety without fighting tooth-and-nail with all the other identical places...
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Date: 2018-10-03 06:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-10-03 06:57 pm (UTC)I suspect the *building* was torn down because the owners wanted to be able to build fancier and more expensive condos in it. I had always assumed it would wind up another restaurant, though. Where had you heard otherwise?
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Date: 2018-10-03 07:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2018-10-04 12:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-10-08 02:22 pm (UTC)We do at least have most of the kinds of Asian in Davis now between Meju, Kor Tor Mor, Dakzen, Sugidama, and Hulun Beir. Ironically we're now missing Chinese.
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Date: 2018-10-08 02:52 pm (UTC)But definitely on the drinkeries. I largely ignore all of them, but they've gotten a bit excessive...
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Date: 2018-11-23 09:31 pm (UTC)