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Restaurant of the Week: Norms
Norms, 807 S. Indian Hill Blvd. (at Auto Center), Claremont Norms, which opened in Claremont next to the 10 Freeway in August, was the most-anticipated Inland Valley restaurant arrival since Five Guys...
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Restaurant of the Week: Fattoush
Fattoush Mediterranean Cuisine, 428 Auto Center Drive (at Indian Hill), Claremont Debuting in December 2011, Fattoush is next to the new Super King market. The two of them add a welcome touch of the...
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Restaurant of the Week: Pizza n’ Such
Pizza n’ Such, 202 Yale Ave. (at 2nd), Claremont Not to be confused with Pizza ‘N Stuff in La Verne, its closest cousin by punctuation, Pizza n’ Such has been a Claremont fixture since 1979, family...
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Restaurant of the Week: zPizza, Claremont
The Laguna Beach-based zPizza chain opened a location in the Claremont Packing House this spring in the old Maui Wowi smoothie space. I’m a fan of the Upland location, featured here previously, and...
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Restaurant of the Week: Union on Yale
Union on Yale, 232 Yale Ave. (at Bonita), Claremont Union on Yale is the second restaurant in the Village by John Solana, who opened the gastropub Back Abbey in 2008 (see my writeup here) and kicked...
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Restaurant of the Week: Crepes de Paris, Claremont
Crepes de Paris, 540 W. 1st St. (at Oberlin), Claremont A touch of Paris now graces Claremont in this crepes restaurant in the Packing House. It’s part of a small chain — based in Orange County,...
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Restaurant of the Week: Euro Cafe
Euro Cafe, 546 E. Base Line Road (at Mills), Claremont Not every worthwhile restaurant in Claremont is in the Village. Case in point: Euro Cafe, located since 2004 in the Vons center on Base Line. Far...
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Restaurant of the Week: Rounds Burgers
Rounds Burgers, 885 S. Indian Hill Blvd. (at Auto Center Drive), Claremont The premium burger wars are heating up in Claremont, where the Village’s Back Abbey and Eureka have been joined by Rounds,...
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Restaurant of the Week: I Like Pie
I Like Pie, 175 Indian Hill Blvd. (at 2nd), Claremont A bake shop named I Like Pie? I’m in, especially since it’s within walking distance of my house. Situated between Le Pain Quotidien and Loving...
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Restaurant of the Week: 50/Fifty
50/Fifty Asian Fusion Cuisine, 201 N. Indian Hill Blvd. (at 2nd), Claremont The new restaurant by the former owner of Bangkok Blue in La Verne, 50/Fifty opened in Februaryxx in Claremont’s Village...
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Restaurant of the Week: Petiscos
Petiscos, 211 W. 1st St. (at Harvard), Claremont Occupying a tiny white house dating to the 19th century, when it was a railroad ticket office, and in more recent years home to Shrimps and Village...
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Restaurant of the Week: Bua Thai
Bua Thai Cuisine, 450 W. First St. (at Indian Hill), Claremont; open daily. Meeting a friend for dinner recently at Bua Thai, I snapped an exterior photo and, during our meal, took a photo of my dish,...
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Restaurant of the Week: Beer Belly Deli
Beer Belly Deli, 590 W. 1st St. (in Packinghouse), Claremont The location is less obvious than a beer belly, being tucked away in an interior corner of the Claremont Packinghouse, able to be found...
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Restaurant of the Week: Bardot
Bardot, 206 W. Bonita Ave. (at Harvard), Claremont For 21 years the corner of Bonita and Harvard was home to Harvard Square Cafe, perhaps the quintessential Claremont restaurant: largely outdoors,...
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Restaurant of the Week: Alamir Flatbreads
Alamir Flatbreads, 426 Auto Center Drive (at Indian Hill), Claremont; open daily Alamir joined Fattoush in 2013 as Middle Eastern restaurants seeking some synergy from the Super King market, which...
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Restaurant of the Week: Collins Dining Hall, Claremont McKenna College
Collins Dining Hall, Claremont McKenna College campus (roughly Sixth and Mills), Claremont Cafeterias at the Claremont Colleges are open to the public and well worth a visit, if you don’t mind eating...
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Restaurant of the Week: The Junction
The Junction, 1 N. Indian Hill Blvd. (at First), Claremont The first block of the “new Village,” just above the railroad tracks, has struggled a bit, with several tenants having come and gone. Even a...
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Restaurant of the Week: Hoch-Shanahan, Harvey Mudd
Hoch-Shanahan Dining Hall, Harvey Mudd College, 301 Platt Blvd. (at Dartmouth), Claremont I’ve dined and dished about the dining halls at Claremont McKenna, Scripps and Pitzer colleges in Claremont,...
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Restaurant of the Week: Sanamluang Thai Cuisine, Claremont
Sanamluang Thai Cuisine, 710 S. Indian Hill Blvd. (at San Jose), Claremont It might seem baffling that Sanamluang, which has long had a popular restaurant at 1648 Indian Hill Blvd. in Pomona, only a...
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Restaurant of the Week: Noodle World Jr.
Noodle World Jr., 2440 W. Arrow Route (at Monte Vista), Upland This small chain opened a location out our way in April 2014. Technically it’s in Upland, but it’s only a couple hundred yards from the...
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