This is just an update on what’s going on in San Leandro’s dismal restaurant “scene”.\u00a0 Please comment if you have any more info.<\/p>\n
– Smiling Jack Station<\/a><\/strong> is a new Filipino restaurant at the old Straw Hat location on Washington Ave.\u00a0 In addition to Filipino favorites, it offers boiled and fried seafood, BBQ and burgers.\u00a0 They have a banquet room and karaoke and dancing on weekend nights.\u00a0 There is a $5 off $25 coupon on their website.<\/p>\n – Dick’s Restaurant and Lounge<\/a><\/strong> has changed ownership<\/a>.\u00a0 The owners are keeping the name and apparently, most of the menu.\u00a0 Even the chef will be staying transitionally.\u00a0 One change: they’re adding TVs both to the dining room and lounge.\u00a0 Alas, that, to me, is a reason *not* to go.\u00a0 If you need a TV to distract you from what you’re eating, that says quite a bit about the quality of the food.<\/p>\n –Harley’s \/ JD’s Burgers<\/a><\/strong>, you know, the restaurant on Washington and Marina that looks like it used to be a drive-in restaurant, has a new name.\u00a0 Maybe it means it’s changed ownerships. Hopefully it means the food won’t be as atrocious and expensive.\u00a0 Unless I hear lots of good reviews, I probably won’t give it a try, though<\/p>\n –La Bella Italia<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The placed turned into a Mexican restaurant some time ago, but it doesn’t seem to have lasted much as that, and now it’s up for sale<\/a>.\u00a0 I hope someone with some vision – and a good cook – buys it.\u00a0 Really, I would LOVE it if someone would turn it into a modern-day Pring’s<\/a>.\u00a0 Find the old menu, get a great chef, and give it a try! I’d go for sure.<\/p>\n –Nick’s Family Restaurant<\/a><\/strong> has been remodeled. I haven’t been back but the reviews on Yelp<\/a> are very mixed vis a vis the food.<\/p>\n – Mon Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/a> in the Manor seems to be for sale.\u00a0 Or at least I think this for sale ad<\/a> fits Mon Caf\u00e9 the best.<\/p>\n – New China Buffet<\/strong><\/a> is also for sale (see here)<\/a>.<\/p>\n –Ploughmans<\/a><\/strong> is up for sale<\/a>.\u00a0 I’m sure some people will be sad, but I don’t think it’ll be that great a loss.\u00a0 San Leandro does need a good breakfast place, hopefully whoever buys it will turn it into one.<\/p>\n –Vila Cereja<\/strong><\/a> is *still* up for sale<\/a>.\u00a0 That place has so much potential! I wish San Leandro’s Business Development department would actually do something useful for once and entice a San Francisco restaurant to open a second branch here.<\/p>\n