What Do You Wish Was Here?
An empty restaurant on Sir Francis Drake sits ready for a new owner.
San Anselmo-Fairfax Patch is featuring a vacant or abandoned buildings or lots and asking readers: "What do you wish was here?"
The idea was inspired by Candy Chang from New Orleans, who in 2010 created "I wish this was" stickers and placed thousands around the city for residents to fill in the blanks. Stickers can be bought online here.
Since Dream Farm, which was formerly Fork, shut down, this restaurant next to Mi Pueblo has sat empty. What do you wish would go in here?
What do you wish was here?
Tell us in the comments.
Jeremy McLane
6:40 pm on Monday, September 12, 2011
This place called Lavan Cookies. They have 2 stores in New York that have AMAZING cookies. I have always wanted one of them here. The cookies are HUGE and amazingly awesome!!!
YUM!!!!!!!!!!
Deborah F.
7:37 pm on Monday, September 12, 2011
A good reasonably priced Italian or Indian/Pakistani restaurant, or a casual dining place
that's open for dinner where you can get a meal for $15 or less. San Francisco and Berkeley are full of such places, San Anselmo not so much.
Sarah Shideler
8:40 pm on Monday, September 12, 2011
Deep dish Chicago style pizza for dine in and take out.
russ bevans
7:04 am on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Please bring us some diversity!! One more pizza, mexican, italian is soooo boring. Give us brazilian, vietnamese, korean bbq, etc. San Anselmo needs new and different.
Sierra Salin
9:08 am on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Someplace that would kick us all in the ass, to get up, turn off the t.v's, get out of our cars and chuck our self absorbed consuming and wastefool lifestyles and narcissistic attitudes of individual empire and $ profit at the expense of most everything good and change this world for the better, while we can. If we don't like the fact that the environments are tanking, or class sizes are increasing, etc, well. perhaps we should quit valuing and supporting endless wars and waste? It's up to us folks. Oops, where's the remote, time to change the channel, eh?
Kelly Dunleavy O'Mara
10:29 am on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Um, I don't know if that's a business that would make money and survive?
Thomas
1:27 am on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
...but then they won't advertise on Patch, and then no more Patch to post on from your ipad as you grab another sip of "fair trade" green tea from your communal share cup. Ohh those greedy profit bastards!!!!
R Darcy
6:01 am on Monday, October 17, 2011
or a taco bell
CB
9:42 am on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
An AFFORDABLE restaurant. I like the comments above about bringing diversity and affordability.
Alison Leaf
10:45 am on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
'Home Cooking & Homework' - A hip & happening place where teens can go to eat healthy snacks, do home work and get involved with creative projects.
Camille E
1:49 pm on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Vietnamese! We moved from LA in 2005 and the trend was "hip, modern, affordable" Vietnamese. SO good, SO healthy and SO affordable. We need some diversity folks. And we all need fun, cheap places to eat.
DEBBIE RUHL
2:37 pm on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Kentucky fried chicken???
kristina ruud
3:36 pm on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Ethiopian would be awesome :)
Thomas
1:29 am on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
A real, I mean real (don't say Harmony) Dim Sum place. Maybe too Chinese for some here...
I am down with Korean BBQ too.
McCoy
8:47 pm on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
noodle place a la Citrus Club in the Haight.
agree, agree, agree with affordable, fast and casual.
Votch Levi
11:03 pm on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Santa Barbara has a restaurant called Natural Cafe. It has a great variety in the menu and is reasonably priced. I moved to San Anselmo from the central coast last year and Natural Cafe is the only thing I miss.
ron ratchford
1:04 pm on Monday, October 17, 2011
It could become a center for cooking classes and for meals that are delivered to the community via the whistle stop and tamalpais access bus and the large vans that are owned by many people who do not know what to do with their kindness. A food center for those would enjoy doing a little cooking for others. Hey! that could be me, I cook. And I know others who also like to feed people.
jennifer brown
11:48 am on Monday, November 28, 2011
Oh my, I was going to suggest a "Natural Cafe" style restaurant too! I moved to SA from SB 11 years ago... still miss this cafe and still cannot believe that one doesn't exist here. It would be such a success with our community, I just know it.