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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)
From: [personal profile] writerkit
What, so they got rid of Johnny D's specifically so the building owner could put something in there that was less attention-intensive than a restaurant, and now they're putting in *another restaurant*? Rrr.

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Date: 2018-10-03 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] writerkit
At the closing brunch and in the leadup thereto-- that the building owner wanted to put in something that wasn't a restaurant.

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Date: 2018-10-04 12:27 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] writerkit
I mean, it's *also* possible I misheard; this was conversation-being-passed-around.

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Date: 2018-10-08 02:22 pm (UTC)
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I get the impression Davis Square remains resolutely ever-so-slightly downmarket for someplace like Transit – witness Gargoyles being replaced (roughly speaking) by The Painted Burro. Really between there, Five Horses, Orleans, Spoke, and Saloon I'm more worried about the number of yuppified drinkeries mostly with too much noise and so-so food (I hear Spoke is better on both counts).

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: 2018-11-23 09:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mindstalk
Froyo, ramen, *then* Poke! Though I guess the ramen trend is more diffuse vs. having 4 places right in Davis. (Four places in Porter, now...)

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