D²: "Reincarnation" of Pluto

[m-b-w.livejournal.com]

Melissa, who many of you will remember from Pluto, is opening a store in what used to be the RJ Cody store - 409 Highland Avenue.  The name of it will be D², and it will be similar to the old Pluto that so many of us miss!

 

Unfortunately, the bad news mentioned in the comments to the previous post (http://community.livejournal.com/davis_square/852288.html) on this subject was true.  The JP Pluto store has closed.  One of the owners of Pluto was very ill, and he recently passed away.  

Melissa is a Davis Square resident who is very excited about being in business here again, especially in a neighborhood which is the new home of two other great stores, Comicazi and Magpie.   I’m really looking forward to the opening of  D² (probably June).  I think we have enough food and drink here (although I love the idea of Kick*ss Cupcakes down the road); it will be nice to have another place to buy fun gifts, etc.

Comments

Re: sushi

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

It's on Mass Ave right next to Seoul Food, and opening pretty shortly. I guess we haven't seen any traffic about it here because it's *really* not in Davis--it's Porter area. But close enough to my place that it's no stretch to walk over. Addis is generally better than Asmara in Central, but Asmara is so much easier to get to that that's my regular haunt.

Re: sushi

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

We used to go down to Fasika in Jamaica Plain -- it was in the back of a dive bar, and really cheap and really, really good. (So much better than Asmara -- I haven't eaten at Addis.) But now the JP location is closed and it moved up to Somerville (way out on Broadway). Unfortunately, while the food is still good, now the bar is even more of a dive and now populated by loud, drunken townies (nothin' wrong with townies per se, but...) instead of the former largely Ethiopian clientele.

Re: sushi

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I only went to Fasika once when I lived in JP a few years ago--the food was good but the atmosphere put my companions off. I haven't been back. Interesting that it's moved--weird to think of an Ethiopian townie bar.