New Restaurant in Carberrys/O'Naturals/Boloco/Green Tomato space?

[buckturgidsen.livejournal.com]

Does anyone have details on the "gourmet oven-made pizza establishment" that is going in on Elm Street, replacing Green Tomato 2? Obvious doubts about the viability of that space aside, I am excited about some new pizza choices in Davis (along with Flatbread in the Sacco's space and Zing over in Porter).

Comments

[mderidder.livejournal.com]

No info, but is gourmet pizza the new burrito? I mean, two places opening at almost the same time, with Zing not that old.

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

We can hope!!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly.

But it won't matter, whatever goes into that cursed space will be there for 3 months and then close their doors.

/doomsaying

[hikermtnbiker.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy with a plain old nicely done Italian pizza. I'm a bit tired of gourmet this and that. It simply seems to be an excuse to charge 16+ bucks for a pizza. While I am at it, I'm also way tired of "Luxury Condo".

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I agree with you totally. At our house, we call good old Dial-a-Pizza, and it's absolutely delicious, IMO. Regular, traditional delivery pizza with our choice of regular, traditional toppings. I just don't find anything appealing about a brick-fired slab of ten-grain sourdough topped with braised sea bass and organic blackberries. That's not pizza.

Personally I wish something other than a restaurant would go in there. A small hardware store would be very handy, for instance. But I don't get to plan these things.

[quinnesocrates.livejournal.com]

I agree too.

I personally vote for The Paddock for the best regular old pizza. Seriously delicious.

[ron_newman]

But we have Tags Hardware, which is a 7-minute walk from that location.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Aw, I think O'Natural's lasted at least a year, didn't it?

*hopes for tasty pizza to survive*

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Carberry's was there for years and years, so.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

You know what I want? A chart or something that shows how long each of the places has lasted, cause it seems like Carberry's was there for ages, then the next place lasted an . . . okay . . . amount of time (was that O'Natural's?), but each place after that has had a harder time of it. There must be an equation!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's time for another one of thetathx1138's flowcharts.

[mrpet.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it was built over an Indian burial ground or if there was the Carbury's Curse ;)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

In every town I've lived in, there has always been that one or two cursed commercial spaces that nothing could survive in. Optimistic proprietors would move in, and within a year or two they'd be liquidating. I bet there are people who would blame bad fung shui of the buildings. I don't know enough about it to argue.

[ron_newman]

400 Highland Ave. was like that, but the current restaurant (Sagra) seems to have broken the curse.

[buckturgidsen.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a Scooby Doo episode where a sweet and well-intentioned elderly lady starts a wraps+smoothies restaurant concept and some villain dresses up like an enormous cockroach and haunts the basement, scaring away the all the townspeople and Settlers of Catan players?

[georgy.livejournal.com]

Well, hey, at least the space is going back to its Bertucci's roots, right?

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

No, 'Tucci's #1 is what's now Subway.

[georgy.livejournal.com]

Whoops

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing even though I knew Bertucci's was next door. YOU WERE CLOSE ENOUGH.

[ron_newman]

No, to go back to its roots, the next occupant would need to be Herrell's Ice Cream.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure vacant is it's natural state.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Nah. If you've lived here for 20+ years, the original Steve's Ice Cream is its natural state. It didn't use to be a doom-spot until after Carberry's--Steve's was there for more than a decade and then Carberry's was there for years and years.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

I remember Carberry's opening and then closing, so not exactly years and years :p Though definitely longer than any place since.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure it was there for at least 8 years.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Or more: this Phoenix review (http://bostonphoenix.com/archive/food/97/02/06/noshing.html) from early 1997 refers to it.

[buckturgidsen.livejournal.com]

Upper Crust would be an example of a chain that could pull it off in this space, especially if they were able to get a beer/wine license. And it wouldn't hurt if they completely overhauled the inside so it wasn't so weird. (Still not sure what Boloco was thinking...)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I don't like how noisy it is in that space. Everything feels amplified by the high ceiling. They would do well put in a drop ceiling if that's logistically possible (I never went into Green Tomato, so maybe they already did).

[mrsdollylevi.livejournal.com]

I wonder if someone should just go in a different direction with the space. Maybe a yoga studio?

[fefie.livejournal.com]

I still miss Bertucci's and Carberry's (and Steve's way back in the day) on that block....

[quinnesocrates.livejournal.com]

We do have a shortage of yoga studios in Cambridge/Somerville. NOT!

[mrsdollylevi.livejournal.com]

Glad you're filling the need left by a lack of snarky posts. We need more of them!