Showing posts with label The Greek Joint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Greek Joint. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

The word for today is "Cao." Cao Bakery and Café says hello tonight to their new neighbors and future customers near Hollywood City Hall. The word for today is "Cao." The newest location of @CaoBakery says hello tonight to their new #HollywoodFL neighbors and future customers near Hollywood City Hall. Their aim? To "be the Dunkin’ Donuts of Cuban pastries."🥧😍😘 I can live with that! 😊


If you have not already heard, later this evening, at 7 pm, I and several other folks from the Hollywood Hills, North Central, and Park East Civic Associations will be at Cao Bakery and Café, at 2401 Hollywood Blvd., a new restaurant which promises to be a boon to the area near Hollywood City Hall that can certainly use more liveliness and diversity of tastes.
https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/restaurants/article230535274.html 

 I had the good fortune two weeks ago of being able to speak for a few minutes at their new location to Tony Cao, the owner of the popular Miami-based business. The company had previously been his family's highly-regarded Vicky Bakery & Restaurant, famous in Miami-Dade for their delicious pastries.


It's spelled Cao, but pronounced like the bovine, cow... with the "A" in the logo representing a slice of pie or cake. Tony joked to me that over time he and his business partner had come to say that CAO stood for Cuban American Original.
That's actually reflected in some of the locations on the wall behind the counter.
www.caobakerycafe.com  

With the opening of his Hollywood location on the northwest corner of Hollywood Blvd. and N. 24th Avenue, the site formerly of a Wings 'n Curls but which had laid empty for at least the past 18 months, Tony's successful business will number ten Cuban cuisine footholds in South Florida, and his second in Broward County, with more planned in the future,  including, perhaps, one located somewhere in Hallandale Beach. #CaoHollywood
Their eventual goal? "...to be the Dunkin’ Donuts of Cuban pastries." I can live with that!

Please swing by the Hollywood site tonight if you can and munch on some delicious food and socialize with some of Hollywood's most-involved, most-informed citizenry. ️

Last week I posted the following very sad blog post that you may not have seen because of the holidays and travel, so if you missed it then, please take a look at it when you can.

 In Miami, An Unspeakable Tragedy in a Time of Thanksgiving - South Florida suffers a grievous loss with the death of young and idealistic Alejandra Agreda. This news broke my heart that Saturday night... 
A 2020 that will open with one less concerned and committed civic activist eager and able to make a positive difference in a part of America that's largely bereft of them.

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http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/in-miami-unspeakable-tragedy-in-time-of.html 

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Friday, September 16, 2016

Today and Saturday, I will be at @HollywoodFLCRA's #ParkingDay event, at Danish Pastry Co., @danishpastryco, and at The Greek Joint, @GreekJoint. Come by and see what's doing -and what's to eat!


Today and Saturday, I will be at the Hollywood CRA event, above, PARK(ing) Day Hollywood.


I will be spending Friday morning and afternoon at -and outside of- 2031 Tyler Street, which is Danish Pastry Hollywood Co., @danishpastryco a place that I can personally assure you is absolutely full of delicious food (and great coffee) and candies from all parts of, yes, Scandinavia.
#kaboom

Later I'll be at 1925 Hollywood Blvd., i.e. The Greek Joint, @GreekJoint the home of perhaps the best Greek food in South Florida I've eaten since being at a once-popular Greek restaurant on Lincoln Road on South Beach, where, Once Upon a Time, I celebrated my North Miami Beach High School graduation with family and friends, after leaving the ceremony held at the nearby Miami Beach Convention Center.




Depending upon how things are going, I may even shoot some video of my own about this for my YouTube Channel, a useful tool that, quite honestly, I've neglected for far too long.
But as you readers of the blog will be seeing in the future weeks, I will be doing something about changing that dynamic as local elections in South Florida get closer and candidate debates and forums suddenly multiply like mushrooms, and important public policy issues hang in the air, waiting for someone to answer them in an honest and forthright manner.
Assuming someone besides me actually asks them, of course.

I hope that as many of you as possible can make this event in-person at either location, either day, because I have attended similar Pop Up public policy events in other parts of the country, and, if done correctly, they can really give you a very different and unique perspective  on what we accept as "normal" within the streetscape and landscape that makes up our daily life.
And in South Florida, of course, that always includes parking.


So, come for the public policy lessons, but be sure to stay and check out the friendly customer service and delectable Cinnamon Swirls with Vanilla Icing!


More photos and details in coming days as I share what I/we learned at this weekend's @HollywoodFLCRA's #ParkingDay event.


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