If you read the title of this post and are thinking, “Triangle Square? I thought everything moved out of that M.C. Escher-nightmare mall long ago.” Well, yes, NikeTown and Virgin Megastore are gone; but Yard House and Sutra are hanging on, and now will apparently have some company.
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The Daily Pilot
has reported that Saddle Ranch Chop House (whom you might have seen in front of Universal Studios) and a restaurant called El
Corazon de Costa Mesa will move into the space vacated by Chronic
Cantina and Johnny Rockets, respectively.
Developers are even talking of a possible hip-and-current bowling alley
like Bowlmor and 300 for their venue.
So are we seeing a revival of Triangle Square? That still remains to be seen. I still remember plans for an ultra luxe movie theater that never materialized.
But news like this allows me to trot out my usual joke whenever the
subject comes up: “Don't you hate it when you can't find parking there
and have to circle Triangle Square?”
Har har…Sorry.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.