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Another vestige of Polynesian cuisine bites the dust in Newton
By adamg on Tue, 05/24/2016 - 11:44pm
Newton's long standing landmark, stands no morepic.twitter.com/RqpCQReGia
— Newton Police (@newtonpolice) May 24, 2016
South Pacific actually closed in 2012, but the sign remained - until today.
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The end of an era
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It was a very good restaurant
It was a very good restaurant. It's hard to find that variation of the cuisine outside of this area.
not close by
A friend had a hankering for it (Brighton/Allston area) - we had to go to Malden for it. Are there any restaurants like this left in the city?
Not really, no, if the tiki
Not really, no, if the tiki ambience is what you seek. Tiki Island in Medford has roughly the same level of New England-style Chinese food and polynesian cocktails but it isn't quite as cool as the backroom of South Pacific was. Nearly every trendy restaurant seems to have an exorbitantly-priced variant on Mai Tais these days. Part of the problem, I suspect, are fire codes. I really wish someone would do a proper tiki-themed polynesian restaurant in the metropolitan area.
Do you have recommendations
Do you have recommendations for places outside of the city that still serve that food even without the ambience? Fried rice, egg rolls, pu pu platters, egg egg fu yung, etc.
Happy memories of the past.
Happy memories of the past. *sigh* Those old neon signs are big collectibles these days.
Recommendations for other
Recommendations for other restaurants in the area still serving that kind of food with decent quality.
Kowloon
Still worth the trip up to Saugus.
There's also the Tahiti in Dedham, but I'll leave it to others to discuss whether that would qualify for "decent quality."
Is the Honolulu still in
Is the Honolulu still in Norwood? I never set foot in the place but I know it existed at one point.
Long gone....
Been gone for 20+ years
What about just for that old
What about just for that old school food with fried rice, egg rolls, and pu pu platters? Doesn't have to have the ambience.
Tiki Island in Malden
http://www.tikiislandrestaurant.com/
Medford actually. Not that
Medford actually. Not that there's a huge difference.
Strongly recommend against Cathay Pacific
In Quincy.
Avoid at all costs.
Bad food and worse service.
I went there for 20 years, eventually out of convenience, not quality.
They have a Quincy cop on detail on weekends, which is telling in itself.
Last straw was when I was served inedible food and when I refused it and refused to pay for it the manager threatened to bring the police into it. I said please. I'll call them myself.
Viola! Charge was removed grudgingly.
Real scumbag management.