Top 11Davis Square Confessions

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

It’s a slow, tiresome Monday, so as I approach my 9th year as a Davis Square resident I have some confessions. These are "confessions" because these things make me feel like the bitch I am! My list goes to 11.

Do you have any confessions? Perhaps later in the week I’ll feel perky and refreshed and post my top 11 loves -though it will be hard to think of only 11.

1. I’ve been secretly rooting for Kick Ass Cupcakes to fail, and I’m boggled that they still survive.
2. While I like McIntyre and Moore in theory, I never use them and won’t miss them.
3. I hate Mike’s, its terrible – even with the cheap beer, I don't get the popularity of this institution - I liked it better when they were crappier inside with the old signs.
4. Chipotle has won my burrito bowl dollars, I never would have seen that coming Anna’s! Anna Anna, please forgive me!
5. While I love Deisel, I’m going less and less now that the same 5 crazy people rotate ownership of the good chairs/couches and NEVER leave.
6. I don’t miss Someday Cafe, I liked it in theory, but it was a dirty filth hole.
7. I don’t miss the junkies in front of share group on Dover St (not that all of them were junkies), but I do miss the times they would interact with the Mormons.
8. I really don’t want to see Sacco’s close, but yet I never give them any business, and I was opposed to the Community Connections Center for no other reason than I thought it was a dumb name.
9. As fiercly opposed as I was to CVS opening, I now shop there all the time.
10. I want all bars except Joshua Tree to get a 2am permit!
11. Even though it’s a lame joke I still find it funny that Store 24 is not open 24 hours, and that Bread and Butter Konvience is, but has  a weird name.

Comments

[komos.livejournal.com]

1) The milk KAC sells is quite good, but I'm not sure I'd buy from them if not for taking a strange delight at having the owner and staff ask if I want cupcakes repeatedly in spite of my saying "Just the milk" every time I set a jug on the counter.

2) Redbones hasn't been the same since they stopped serving white bread on top of their plates. While I appreciate the added variety on their menu and their beer list, they really have become a mediocre rib joint.

3) The Someday was awesome when it opened, but by the time Tosci's took it over, it smelled of mold and feet.

4) The Rosebud is the biggest waste of a classic diner on the East Coast, and not just because the owner is disagreeable.

5) I find liberal activists working the Square kind of pointless, and things like last year's "Honk to Impeach" street corner campaign downright embarrassing. For the record, I'm probably bluer than you.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

2) I agree about the mediocre ribs, but there are a few things there I still love:

- The sweet sauce (the others aren't the best, but that sweet sauce is fab)
- FRIED PICKLES
- Fried okra
- Buffalo shrimp

But yeah, the ribs are eh. Also, that's not sweet tea, that's tea wit some sweet n' low.

[komos.livejournal.com]

I wish their sauces were served hot like god intended. As for the others? They've got some of their frying down cold. I like their catfish, and I haven't found buffalo shrimp I've liked better. I even really like the sausage, though I'm sad that they don't seem to have anything but "sage and onion" anymore.

The lemonade is from a can, too. :\

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

To me, sometimes their catfish tastes a bit like the oil was overused or going off, but yeah, they do have the best catfish I've found in the city.

[syntheticnature.livejournal.com]

You don't happen to know *what* can, do you? My husband loves the stuff, and he would be thrilled to be able to keep a can in the fridge.

[komos.livejournal.com]

I don't, unfortunately. I just know it's not fresh squeezed.

[bluesauce.livejournal.com]

Oh god yeah, the buffalo shrimp.

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

Thirded, the buff shrimp is amazing!

[unferth.livejournal.com]

I go there way too much because a) they serve food later than anywhere else in Davis Square, and I'm a night owl, and b) the beer selection is the best around. When it's 11:00 at night and I want food and beer, there's really no other option closer than Porter or Teele. So even though the food is only OK (not bad, but OK) they get a lot of my business.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

5. Oh HELL YES. I really hate "preaching to the choir", which most of these are, and honking to impeach will only make the square more annoying and unsafe while doing nothing to increase the likelihood of impeachment.

[teko.livejournal.com]

Those activists are actively harming the business in Davis Square, I believe. They make living in and walking through the Square an unfriendly place to be with their strong-arm guilt tactics. If local businesses are wondering about their lunch business, I'd point to the asshole from Greenpeace who yells at you behind your back if you don't sign his damn petition. He and his crowd are public nuisances.