Moraga Commons Park
Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
6:30pm – 8:30pm | FreeYou are invited to join your neighbors on Thursday evenings at the Moraga Commons Park for a relaxing free concert in the park. Bring your picnic blanket or lawn chairs to the grassy hillside in front of the band shell. Enjoy the music while your children enjoy the park. The volunteers of MPF will cook dinner for you with the Snack Bar opening at 6:00 pm.
1325 S. Main St, Walnut Creek
California Pizza Kitchen will be opening in a huge new spot a short walk from their previous Broadway Plaza location in the new Agora apartment development in downtown Walnut Creek on June 28th. This location will feature an outdoor patio including counter seating in front of a giant roll-up garage door window. The inside looks amazing, check out the photos after the jump for a peek and have a look at their menu here.
Some new menu items will include:
- Summer seasonal menu items like the California Fields Salad, Strawberry Shortcake, Strawberry Lime Margarita and more!
- Fire-Grilled Ribeye cooked with house-made pinot noir sea salt, topped with creamy bleu cheese butter and served with roasted fingerling potatoes and lemon-garlic wild arugula salad
- Hearth-Roasted Halibut, wild caught from Alaska and roasted on a cedar plank with butternut squash farro, grilled asparagus and baby kale
- Roasted Garlic Chicken with Seasonal Vegetables, a crispy-skin chicken breast in lemon-garlic sauce, with a medley of the season’s freshest vegetables
- Rotating, featured seasonal dishes, hand-tossed pizzas and more
More photos after the jump…
Danville Hotel Town Center, Danville
In February we learned that the men’s clothing store Patrick James would be relocating from their Blackhawk Plaza location in Danville to the recently completed Danville Hotel Town Center and they are now open.
Lindsay Wildlife Experience
1931 First Avenue, Walnut Creek
Friday, June 24th, 2016
6:00pm – 8:30pm | $12Kick-off Camp Lindsay: What adventures happen in the evening? Roadrunner ambassador at LindsayCheck out animals at night! And meet our new roadrunner! Cruise through our “Glow Room” and get up close and personal to our owls, rabbits and opossum! Join us for a family-oriented event. Meet animals, make crafts or star gaze with the Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society. Sliders Food Truck will be in the parking lot, so come chow down on some delicious burgers!
Fee: $8 for members, $12 for non-members. Children under 2 free with one paid admission. Pre-registration is not required but appreciated. Tickets will be sold at the door!
251 Hartz Ave, Danville
Thanks to a reader for sending word and photo that a new bubble tea cafe called Cool Tea Bar is opening in Danville where Bibi Bazaar used to be on Hartz Ave. Check out their website here. It looks like they have a few San Francisco locations as well as one each in San Jose and Sacramento.
Broadway Plaza, Walnut Creek
Several months ago we found out that Wetzel’s Pretzels would be coming to a kiosk in Broadway Plaza and now the other kiosk will soon be home to the skincare shop Oceane Beauty.
From their website:
The two key ingredients that make the Oceane line stand tall above the competition is Pearl Powder and Marine Plant Stem Cells, both well known for their age defying and beautifying properties.
C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert:
Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Dr, Walnut Creek
Friday, June 24th – Sunday, June 26th, 2016Making its SF/Walnut Creek debut, Max McLean takes audiences on a fascinating theatrical adventure as C.S. Lewis, tracing his journey from atheism to belief in C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert.
Adapted almost exclusively from Lewis’ writings, Max McLean inhabits Lewis from the death of his mother, his estranged relationship with his father and the experiences that led him from vigorous debunker to the most accessible and eloquent Christian intellectual of the 20th Century.
San Miguel Center, Walnut Creek
Dunkin’ Donuts, which we learned back last December would be coming to the San Miguel Center in downtown Walnut Creek will be opening this Wednesday, June 22nd. This will be their first East Bay Area location with more to come… Check out their menu here. Who is ready for donuts and coffee? Time to make the donuts… 🙂
Broadway Plaza, Walnut Creek
We knew for a while that GAP would be relocating to the new Broadway Plaza redevelopment in downtown Walnut Creek and they have now reopened in a beautiful two story section on the backside of Broadway Plaza between Nordstrom and Macy’s. It’s much bigger than the previous location and both the outside architecture and inside look great. Plenty of natural light thanks to giant vertical windows that run straight up from the ground floor. Note the comfortable lounge area in front.
Blackhawk Museum
3700 Blackhawk Plaza Cir, Danville
Sunday, June 19th, 2016
8:00am – 12:00pm | $20/$30Coming up this weekend, on Sunday June 19, we will be hosting our 10th Annual Blackhawk Museums Father’s Day Car Show. Open to classic, collectible, muscle cars or hot rods, or dads can just bring their favorite ‘ride’. Car entrants receive free admission to the Museum and a Goodie Bag (First 150 cars) courtesy of Meguiar’s. You can pre-register your car online by Friday, or at the event.
The Show will begin at 8 a.m. and will conclude around 2 p.m. with the Museum open until 5 p.m.
Informal awards in four classes will be presented – and the Museum Choice Award will take home a Meguiar’s Ultimate Detail Kit (valued at $350.00). Enter your car today! Juke Joint Band will be entertaining outside at the show area and Scott’s Catering will be offering their Father’s Day champagne brunch inside the Museum’s Automotive Dining Room during the Father’s Day Car Show. Reservations for brunch are available by calling 925.648.1434 or blackhawkadmin@scottswc.com. (Museum members receive a 10% discount.)
