Last week I noted that the indoor dog space Zoom Room will be opening on August 3rd at the Avalon apartment complex in the Contra Costa Centre Transit Village located across from the Pleasant Hill BART station, and now Diablo Dish and the Contra Costa Times is reporting that a new Peruvian restaurant called Mochica will be opening on Treat Blvd. and Sunne Ln. later this year or early next year. See photo above for the ‘Leased’ sign so it looks like that’s the location although it might be elsewhere. As the Contra Costa Times article notes, “most of the storefronts remain vacant in Avalon Walnut Creek, the mixed-use development at the Pleasant Hill-Contra Costa Centre BART station.” When I dropped by last week to see what was going on down there I have to agree with that statement. It felt really desolate. I hope the new restaurant will bring in more interesting stores so I can enjoy strolling around there every now and then.
From Diablo Dish:
His Walnut Creek restaurant, however, will be a more casual affair, closer in spirit to Altamirano’s Mochica, which specializes in elevated-but-affordable Peruvian specialties for dine-in as well as take out.