Remembering restaurants of the past...

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Does anyone remember the Happy Host on El Camino in Belmont? The burgers!! And then you got a big lollipop on your way out!!!

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Stone Soup was my favorite when I worked at the mall. So many great restaurants in the bay area when I was living there.

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Ah, San Mateo. The town of my youth (went to Aragon HS and graduated
in '64). A big night out for our family was the polynesian place at the
Villa.

And how about those Double Sidewinder Fangs???? I almost cried when they
gutted the Polynesian bar. I never ate there...I just drank there. :)

Obviously a lot of us remember this restaurant (I especially liked
the lighting near the waterfall wall that went up and down slowly
to simulate daytime and nighttime), but can anyone remember the
NAME of it??? I'm drawing a blank!
Patty

The Lanai

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Does anyone know the Name of the Mexican restaurant at food court in Hillsdale Shopping Center? It was located bottom floor and had the best enchilada sauce. The years are 1970-1974. whpafly @yahoo.com

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Hey, isn’t anyone old enough to remember Chucks Steakhouse (where Boston Bank is in San Mateo), or Tina’s or The York (on the side street across from where Draegers is now) in San Mateo?

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Hey, isn’t anyone old enough to remember Chucks Steakhouse (where Boston Bank is in San Mateo), or Tina’s or The York (on the side street across from where Draegers is now) in San Mateo?

Hi- Yes, I remember Chucks Steakhouse although I never went. I did go to the York.

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Hi it was fun reading what you wrote is the one I can never get over his Santini’s pizza I have been looking for a pizza like that my whole life and there’s a newer places I need to check out and see if they can begin to compare which I doubt. When you talk about Petrini’s that was 41st? Ave. by the then Long’s Drug Store. Mollie Stone’s is there now on the west side of El Camino Wing fat is still there that’s where my mom is to pick up sweet-and-sour sauce for our barbecued ribs, Talbots toyland just closed the Wells Fargo is still downtown San Mateo and the Ben Franklin still stands but has gone through many changes

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Ah, San Mateo. The town of my youth (went to Aragon HS and graduated
in '64). A big night out for our family was the polynesian place at the
Villa.

And how about those Double Sidewinder Fangs???? I almost cried when they
gutted the Polynesian bar. I never ate there...I just drank there. :)

Obviously a lot of us remember this restaurant (I especially liked
the lighting near the waterfall wall that went up and down slowly
to simulate daytime and nighttime), but can anyone remember the
NAME of it??? I'm drawing a blank!
Patty

The Lanai

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The Villa Hotel's restaurant, in San Mateo

Was this the polynesian restaurant whose name I can't remember?
It used to be one of my family's favorite birthday restaurants.
Patty

The Lanai

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The Villa Hotel's restaurant, in San Mateo

Was this the polynesian restaurant whose name I can't remember?
It used to be one of my family's favorite birthday restaurants.
Patty

The Lanai - right next to the Chartier

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Ah, San Mateo. The town of my youth (went to Aragon HS and graduated
in '64). A big night out for our family was the polynesian place at the
Villa.

And how about those Double Sidewinder Fangs???? I almost cried when they
gutted the Polynesian bar. I never ate there...I just drank there. :)

Obviously a lot of us remember this restaurant (I especially liked
the lighting near the waterfall wall that went up and down slowly
to simulate daytime and nighttime), but can anyone remember the
NAME of it??? I'm drawing a blank!
Patty

Was it at the Villa? If so it was the Lanai

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The Lanai

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The Villa Hotel's restaurant, in San Mateo

Was this the polynesian restaurant whose name I can't remember?
It used to be one of my family's favorite birthday restaurants.
Patty

It was called the Villa Lanai. I have one of their pottery Mai Tai mugs to this day that I had a 21st birthday drink in. It is now 52 years old.....

Bill F

[Trina M]

I've been checking out this newsgroup and have enjoyed reading about places
I'd like to try when I next visit my folks in Modesto. Living in Texas now
(we moved in '77), I am a transplanted Californian and sometimes get
homesick for the places we used to frequent when I was younger. The only
one I've seen posted about is Celia's, which wasn't the Mexican restaurant
we preferred going to, instead going to Horky's. It was still there 9
years ago when I took my husband there on our honeymoon. I'd like to put
up a list of some of the places I remember and see if anyone else remembers
them or knows if they're still open or what may have happened to them if
they are not. If I am out of line here, please let me know where I should
be posting this.
The Happy Host, which became Sirloin and Brew, in San Mateo
The Villa Hotel's restaurant, in San Mateo
Horky's, in either San Mateo or Burlingame, the statues and masks on the
walls used to scare me, I was about 7 at the time
Perry Boys Smorgi (sp?), in San Mateo
Mama's, in San Mateo, it was located downstairs in one of the big dept.
stores at Hillsdale Mall and had good sandwiches
Shipwreck Kelly's, between SF/San Mateo, a seafood buffet as I recall, in a
hotel, the buffet was on what looked like an old ship
Santini's Italian, in San Mateo
Humphrey's Market, in San Mateo
and last but not least
Patrini's Market, in San Mateo, we seemed to live in that store but I
forget where it was located
Sorry the list got kind of long, but the more I wrote down, the more I
remembered. :-) Man am I homesick for my hometown of San Mateo. Thanks
for any replies offered, and my apologies again for the length of this
post.
Becky

I used to go to the Brass Door in San Ramon a lot. Is it still around?

OMG, I am Horky's Granddaughter. I was too young to remember her resaturants. I was only a toddler when she retired. She had a lot of her restaurant decor all over her home in Vegas. She was an amazing woman. She passed years ago.