Diesel Cafe opening second location in Union Square

[ron_newman]

According to a newsletter that I just received from Union Square Main Streets, Diesel Cafe has begun construction on a second location at 11 Bow Street in Union Square, the former Asian-American Bank building. Also, Zeitgeist Gallery is moving into the second floor of that building.

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[frederic.livejournal.com]

Hope it doesn't effect the Sherman Cafe too badly. Their bakegoods and coffee are far superior to Diesel but doesn't have the same hipness that Diesel seems to bring. Although the Sherman isn't open late so they might be hitting different markets in the end.

Seems that Union is becoming the art gallery center with Third Life Studios being one of the more successful right around the corner.

[dani-namaste.livejournal.com]

I hope so too. I love the Sherman, but it troubles me a lot that they aren't open as late as I'd like. I would spend hours in there during the day writing on my laptop when I lived at Brickbottom.

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Hopefully the construction plans for Diesel II call for a whole lot less pretension and attitude.

[overstim.livejournal.com]

hmm, I always get friendly, pretension-less service. Maybe because IM nice, dont talk on my cellophone at the counter and tip once in awhile?

Id just be happy if they put in tables & chairs instead of booths- Im sick of one Tufts humanities major taking up a booth for 4 because she has, like, a laptop AND book and soo totally needs to spead out!

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

I've got a long-standing ::ahem:: grind against them for the attitude I caught when I wanted to put up a Katrina benefit poster there. After that, patronizing the place would be like giving money to people who step on puppies' heads. Fuck 'em.

[spatch]

Good for Zeitgeist, though! Their Inman Square location is teeny-tiny-shoebox small. This'll give them a lot more space.

[dani-namaste.livejournal.com]

I don't normally get the pretension from the folks that work there as I do from some of the patrons. Generally, I end up liking Starbucks better - less crowded, I love the fire and the furnishings, and it feels like a place I can really relax and get some work done.

[cleanup-davissq.livejournal.com]

Shucks! On first glance, I thought Diesel was opening another store in Davis!

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

I was in Sherman's for lunch and to work 2 days ago and by 2 pm I was the only one there (aside from the staff). Maybe it was just an off day but it seemed odd that there was no hang out crowd. Of course Union Sq. is an abomination but that's not their fault.

Good food, good coffee.

[lissie930.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo!
That is excellent news!

[watchamacallit.livejournal.com]

Weren't people just complaining that Union Square is not relevant to the Davis community?

[ron_newman]

On the other hand ... popular Davis Square business expands to an additional location, not that far away. Irrelevant to us?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Why did they give you trouble? You should have been able to just go pin it to the bulletin board without even interacting with them...

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Well, for show posters, it's a little different and it's SOP to ask permission first. Which was given. It was trying to find a place on the board where they gave me a lot of grief. And god forbid something- my poster for instance- was taped next to the board. Rather than help, all the person there could do was tell me what I couldn't do and culminating in "if you can't fit it on the board, you can't put it up".

We put up 100 posters for the show in various establishments all over Somerville and Boston and the only one that gave us any sort of grief- hell, didn't bend over backwards- was Diesel.

I could see if it was just any old show poster for a band, but this was a friggin' benefit and if the owner of Magnolia's could tell me to put the poster right in the middle of his door on both the inside and outside so his patrons could see it, well.... compare and contrast. There are those who pretend to be liberals and those who are, and when the bell rang, I saw who answered it and who didn't.

Forgive me, this might sound bitchy or petty, but New Orleans means a helluva lot to me and it boggles my mind how anyone could throw attitude at someone trying to help.

[artic-monkeys.livejournal.com]

I thought I heard that the zeitgeist people moved away to some other up and coming town far away? I guest I must have heard this about a different group or a different Zeitgeist or maybe this is what they meant? But for some reason I thought they had already moved far away. Does it ring any bells for anyone?

[turil.livejournal.com]

Woooo! Yay for Union Square funkyness.

[artemii.livejournal.com]

someone i know asked one of the owners about it last weekend. she says they're slated to open in about six months.

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

sounds to me like the lense of your cause was/is coloring things. Diesel is a place where people have *jobs*, get paid by the hour, don't make all the decisions ("If you can't fit it on the board..). I think you are being entirely too harsh.

[ron_newman]

Zeitgeist, or Diesel II?

[artemii.livejournal.com]

Diesel: The Sequel.

[ron_newman]

Oooh, I like that.

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Damn right it was coloring my cause. At the time of the concert, most of New Orleans still didn't have power, people were homeless, and the folks down there still needed serious help and the airwaves were flooded 24/7 with commercials from the American Red Cross begging with people to contribute. This wasn't some etherial bullshit like a poster for a show like "my vagina feels oppressed by the evil beings with penisis so I'm going to do performance art". This was to help real people suffering real misery in real time.

Like I said, every single other business contacted was fine. Diesel was the ONLY one that gave anyone any sort of grief about putting up a poster. And I am going to assume that the employees I talked to other establishments were also people with jobs paid by the hour and not responsible for all decisions, yet still they helped. Hell, they wanted to help.

Not Diesel.

If they couldn't find it in the hearts to do a small thing like this to help out with 11" x 17" of wall space, why should I give them my business?