1. Driving home from work yesterday I noticed a couple changes to the restaurant landscape on Baxter Avenue. Something, I don’t know exactly what, is coming to the former Nio’s location. There’s a giant sign that just says Coming Soon! (well it also has a Corona ad). So if anyone knows exactly what is coming soon it’d be swell if you let us know.
Update: Carolyn from Simply PR tells us that she’s heard it’s going to be an El Tarasco. Having never been to an El Tarasco I can’t speak specifically to their food but I’d be happy to have a good Mexican restaurant added to Baxter Avenue. We also hear it might be a Los Aztecs. So it seems likely it’s something Mexican.
2. J Gumbo’s on Baxter is closed. I haven’t been to that location in a while. I go to the one on Poplar Level (look at me getting out of my neighborhood rut!) and have typically had better experiences there than I did at the Baxter one but I’m still sorry to see J Gumbo’s on Baxter gone.
July 4th, 2009 at 11:19 am
when you say “Nios”, do you mean the former “Rios”in the 900 block of Baxter?
July 5th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Also, the owner of Maido on Frankfort Ave. is opoening a new restaurant in the former Karma Cafe location. It will be called the Dragon Kings Daughter, opening mid to late July.
July 5th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
No Jeff, I mean Nio’s that used to be at 917 Baxter Avenue.
Thanks for the scoop Laura!