Colfax Ruined My Sushi

Well, well. I was SOOOOO excited when I first heard that the area around Colfax and York street was getting a makeover, and new and exciting shops would be moving in. There is this crazy church in an old Safeway building over there, and it is UGLY and a total EYE SORE, and that sucker is going to get torn down (now now, my churchy friends, it is moving to a new location in a beautiful old cathedral that was no longer used about 10 blocks away), and the entire area is going to be new, beautiful buildings housing shops and, I'm sure, some housing.

WOW, they are REALLY trying to clean up the place! First they put in the Tattered Cover book store and Twist & Shout Records, and a theater and other shops (including Chipotle where I regularly eat a 1500 calorie burrito). Then Argonaut Liquor breaks ground on a new facility that is going to cost like $10 million to build (THAT....is a whole 'nother blog....mmm!). Now, its the crappy, unsightly area by York and Colfax.

So, having just received some good news about my Sweat Sacks (I'll fill you in later when its fo sho a done deal), My BF and niece and I decide to go to our favorite sushi place on the corner of York and Colfax called Nohana Sushi (see where this is going?)

Now MIND you that this building that Nohana is in is a BEAUTIFUL old building. Needs no renovation whatsoever, so I never suspected a damn thing.

I walk up, and there is a sign on the door that it is the LAST DAY that Nohana would be open. I'm CRUSHED. My BF and I had our first date there 3 years ago, and it has been 'our place' ever since. We literally eat there WEEKLY. I was going to order this awesome bottle of sparkling saki to celebrate my Sweat Sack news, but turns out, I needed it to drown my sorrow in losing my dear friend Nohana.

So now I am cursing the Colfax Restoration Project and loathe the entire thing. I find out from the waitress that they were only told 2 weeks before that the building had been purchased and they had to vacate.

What the F happened to everyone's integrity? Gheesh!

So I stuffed my face with sushi, saki, and mochi, and said 'so long' to our favorite place. It really felt like losing a friend.

Colfax Restoration Project, I HATE you. Unless, that is, you put in a NEW sushi joint to feed my addiction. "Yeah - before this fancy Japanese Cuisine place, there used to be a hole-in-the-wall sushi joint I vaguley remember...."

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Nohana, you will be missed! :(