To all Old Mountain View residents and property owners,
All Old Mountain View residents and property owners are invited to attend.
The Old Mountain View Neighborhood Association (OMVNA) will hold its first regular steering committee meeting of 2025 on Monday, April 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM on Zoom.
OMVNA online www.omvna.org
Facebook www.fb.com/omvna and
Bluesky @oldmv.bsky.social
A key Old MTV Eventor goal is to bring our community together. And it’s time to do it with snacks.
Our first mixer of the year is at Mediterranean Grill House at 650 Castro St Monday, April 28th at 5:30 pm. No entry fee for this event. Nibbles are complimentary. Drinks available for purchase.
Let’s meet and check it out!
When: Monday, April 28th at 5:30 pm
Where: Mediterranean Grill House – 650 Castro St UNIT 110/ Church St
This event is sponsored by OMVNA, to support local and growing restaurants in our neighborhood and promote neighbors meeting neighbors.
For more mixers, sign up for the Old MTV EVENTS ONLY Email List, watch the newsletter and website for announcements. Visit omvna.org for more details.
Mark your calendars for the Annual Neighborhood Egg Crawl.
Saturday April 19th
HUNTERS: 10:00 – Noon
CLEAN UP CREW starts at 12:30pm
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This fun filled morning is one of our most anticipated neighborhood events.
Volunteer HIDERS are volunteer neighbors who supply the treat-filled eggs and yards.
HUNTERS are given a map Saturday morning.
They are allowed to get 1 egg per yard on their map.
They will get assigned a route at random.
There are 6 routes around the neighborhood. – Stick to your map, so other participants are not disappointed.
There will be somewhere between 10 and 14 yards per route depending on who signs up.
We always need hiders.This event would not be possible without the kindness and participation of these neighbors.
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REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST
Advance registration is required for Hiders and Hunters alike.
Deadline is Thursday April 17th at 9pm.
ELITE HUNTER- Clean Up Crew (email for info)
We reserve the right to limit participation to residents of Old Mountain View neighborhood.
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Helping Hand – If you would like to help on this event or other neighborhood events, please contact us. We are organizing now. social@omvna.org
A community event brought to you by the Old Mountain View Neighborhood Association
Check out our latest newsletter. Hand-delivered to your doorstep over the weekend of February 8th.
New downtown-MV restaurants galore! (Listed as usual in approximate order of opening, projected opening, or other news.) Venerable popular Mediterranean Grill House (650 Castro #110, https://www.mediterraneangrillhouse.com/) undertook remodeling in December for “a new coffee and tea and dessert section called Sanaa Cafe,” per Bruce Karney’s Dec.-5 tip to me. He said the owner sought an Arab chef; “Arab coffee is strong like Turkish coffee. The coffee will come from Yemen.”
Ox 9 Noodles (a “Lanzhou hand-pulled noodles” chain) opened Dec. 16, replacing Quality Bourbons & Barbecue (QBB), 216 Castro. Menu highlights noodles in several “thicknesses.” Freshly made noodles are a deep comfort-food tradition in parts of China, one I relish, and look forward to trying at this new restaurant with intriguing specialties like “dry noodles with hot chili.” (The location housed the famous Sue’s Indian Cuisine in the ’90s, then Godavari, Shezan, and QBB, all with familial connections to Sue’s.)
Early January saw Sulbing Cafe open at 975 W. Dana (previously Cafe Terrace, after for many years Yakko Sushi). Personnel confirmed that this Sulbing is affiliated with the large Korean shaved-ice chain of that name. Display case in the brand-new interior shows off dazzling colorful desserts of fruit and shaved ice.
Nick the Greek’s 298-Castro MV location, first announced pre-Covid, opened with free samples January 14. It’s a popular and growing casual chain.
Preliminary signage and hiring notices were up in January at 174 Castro (longtime Amarin location) for Halal Street / Xinjiang Cuisine & BBQ, featuring the locally unusual cuisine of Muslim northwest China (“Uyghur kabobs; Xinjiang handmade noodles.”) Remark: Castro St. is looking up for handmade-noodle fans.
In development at 357 Castro (unit 3A), where Rumble Fish Sushi closed in the pandemic, is a new restaurant “Mr Bao Kitchen” per the beer-wine licensing notice (owner: Ocean One Seafood Co.).
At 171 Castro (long part of the Jehning lock shop’s museum annex), interior work was underway mid-January on Kitchen Story, planned since at least 2022 by entrepreneur Hoyul Steven Choi.
