The City's Historic Preservation Overlay Zones have been developing their Preservation Plans, in collaboration with City Planning and Cultural Heritage many of the HPOZ have completed their specific set of rules and guidelines. The Adams-Normandie HPOZ Preservation Plan was completed and approved by the City in December 2010. Click here for a copy
We have two great new restaurants here in West Adams, both worth your time. At 22nd Street and Union Avenue, Carlos Rodriguez, long a proprietor of restaurants in Culver City, has opened Con Sabor, an upscale Salvadoran eatery, soon to feature live jazz and in process of applying for a beer and wine license.
Then, on Figueroa just north of Adams Blvd. in a recently renovated strip mall we have the ultra modern Jacks N Joe, an all-day breakfast palace with a lengthy menu of flapjacks and omelets set off by excellent coffee.
Bob (blue shirt) and Irene Grant (to his right) celebrate their eightieth birthdays.
About twenty-five neighbors and block club members, young, old, and very young noted the last of summer August 23 with a community potluck. Something special at the event was the eightieth birthdays of Bob and Irene Grant, two of the block club's founders.
New Downtown eatery offers outstanding breakfast menu at Denny's prices.
My wife Jennifer and I recently had Sunday breakfast at the Nickel Diner, now in its fourth month on Main Street opposite Bark Avenue's new doggie day care facility, between Fifth and Sixth Streets in Downtown. Open early for breakfast and also serving lunch, the offerings are really outstanding. The decor is from the forties, with old menus on the wall from soda fountains of the days of yore. For the price of a breakfast at Denny's classy chef Monica May serves up omlets or scrambles with fontina cheese, salmon, grilled zuccini, and many more unusual and welcome choices.
