The majority of Lemonade’s restaurants are in Los Angeles and other points south. LEMONADE WALNUT CREEK The one East Bay location of this California chain has shuttered, leaving only two locations in all of Northern California, both in San Francisco. Burma Unique was at 1375 North Broadway in Walnut Creek.
Beyond the Creek reports that the restaurant has closed, and an April Facebook post from the restaurant confirms the news. Credit: Burma Unique/FacebookīURMA UNIQUE At the time of its 2019 opening, Burma Unique was the first Burmese restaurant in Walnut Creek, occupying a 4,000-square foot space that was once home to Le Cheval. Beyond Burma Unique’s spacious Walnut Creek dining room has gone dark. Let’s hope a similar, happy fate meets Rivoli. However, it should be noted that the 2020 shuttering of Corso, Brucker and Skipper’s other local favorite, was followed shortly by the good news that it would be revived by new owners, and indeed, Peter Chastain’s new Via del Corso has given that restaurant’s story a rare, shiny, silver lining.
Now it is closed “…until further notice,” says Rivoli’s website, but it is marked permanently closed on Google, and our guess is that “further notice” won’t come soon. The Berkeley restaurant from Wendy Brucker and Roscoe Skipper was a favorite upscale choice for locals for almost three decades, and made big news - and regulars justifiably nervous - when it changed hands in 2020. RIVOLI Bitter news came this month when Eve Batey reported on the abrupt closure of Rivoli. According to a Daily Cal report from 2018, it, too, was owned by the Espresso Roma chain, and was part of the coffee shop empire’s plan to appeal to Berkeley’s “growing Asian population.” (The Subway is also owned by Roma’s David “Sandy” Boyd, the Cal reported at the time.) Thanks to a tipster for letting us know about this other, Roma-adjacent closure. NICHI RAMEN It has been dormant for a while, but we hear this 3-year-old ramen shop that shared the corner of Bancroft and Telegraph with a Subway franchise has shuttered for good.
Berkeley’s other Espresso Roma, at 1549 Hopkins St., remains open. It looks like a new tenant signed on the dotted line in recent weeks, as numerous tipsters informed Nosh that the business has finally gone dark. Getting rid of trash just got easier for OaklandersĮSPRESSO ROMA Founded by David “Sandy” Boyd back in 1980, this Elmwood institution has been operating on borrowed time for a while now, with Boyd telling Nosh in February that “the rent is $18,000 a month and the income is $300 a day,” so he’d shutter the business as soon as the landlord found a tenant to take the coffee shop’s place.
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