{"id":332,"date":"2006-09-03T14:39:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T14:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2006-09-03T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T14:39:43","slug":"taqueria-closes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2006\/09\/taqueria-closes-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Taqueria closes down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It will come as no surprise to anyone &#8211; certainly not me &#8211; that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/rest\/taqueria.html\">Taqueria<\/a>, the recently opened, well, taqueria, in downtown San Leandro, just couldn&#8217;t make it.  Though their pricing scheme (charging per item) was innovative, nothing else about it was, and it was competing against a very succesful, authentic, long-time operation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/rest\/pericos.html\">Los Pericos<\/a>), which, frankly, has better food.  So no, I&#8217;m not surprised they&#8217;re closed.<br \/>\nAccording to a sign they&#8217;re now doing catering only.  I wish them well, but I can&#8217;t help feeling sad about the possibilities the place had.  There is certainly a need in San Leandro for a standard Mediterranean restaurant serving things like quality kebabs, kofta, pilafs, Mediterranean salads\/platters and tons of little things in pastries.  True, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/rest\/luke.html\">Luke&#8217;s grill<\/a>, but their quality is less than stellar, and they&#8217;re expensive.  And even then they&#8217;re often packed.  But I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/archives\/002070.html\">Kolbeh<\/a>-Taqueria owners just didn&#8217;t have the resources to dedicate to a restaurant serving quality foods and they tried to concentrate on gimmicks rather than quality.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m still hoping someone will open a new restaurant in downtown San Leandro &#8211; we surely need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will come as no surprise to anyone &#8211; certainly not me &#8211; that Taqueria, the recently opened, well, taqueria, in downtown San Leandro, just couldn&#8217;t make it. Though their pricing scheme (charging per item) was innovative, nothing else about it was, and it was competing against a very succesful, authentic, long-time operation (Los Pericos), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}