Good Friends Poke emerges in The Davis Collection
This short column also has updates on Peet’s Coffee, Fluffy Fluffy desserts and a new hair salon
Good Friends Hawaiian Poke opened its second Davis restaurant on Friday, this one in the new Davis Collection shopping center. It already has a popular location downtown, at 400 G St., which opened in 2019.
Like its sister eatery, the new one offers poke bowls, sushi or chicken wraps, and rice bowls with chicken, salmon, or veggie options. There’s also Spam musubi, and the poke by the pound to take home.
Good Friends owner Monica Dui said she is “so grateful for the Davis community, and support for making my dream come true. Work hard and you can achieve anything (if) you put your mind to it.”
The opening follows the closure last month of Davis’ first poke restaurant, Zumapoke, at 730 Third St. Like Zumapoke, Good Friends is locally owned. (Dui said she lives in Sacramento because she can’t afford a home in Davis.) Though some of the new stores filling the former University Mall center are locally franchised, most are corporate chains with popular brand names.
As Good Friends quietly launched its soft opening, patrons lined up across the courtyard for grand opening giveaways at Fluffy Fluffy desserts, which is locally franchised.
→ So long, Peet: The downtown Davis Peet’s Coffee closed for good today. It was at 231 E St. The store in The Marketplace remains open.
The company closed about 30 stores at the end of January, mainly in the Bay Area and around Sacramento. The move was a cost-cutting measure following Keurig Dr Pepper’s buyout of JDE Peet’s.
→ Salon blossoms: I told you a couple of months ago that one of the founders of Refinery Salon was opening a new salon in town. Well, Wildflower Salon opened Jan. 26 at 105 E St., in The Lofts, directly above Davis Creamery.
Amber Norris Monez and her sister opened Refinery Salon in 2015 at 421 Second St., in the Davis Odd Fellows building. Former employees took over Refinery, and Montez is starting fresh.
She said the name was inspired by her late father, who helped the sisters build the original salon. “A few years back, he found a tapestry that I purchased that said, ‘In a field of roses, she is a Wildflower.’ ”
The new salon has two chairs: “one for me to work in and the other (for a stylist who I can) mentor and teach.”
For booking details, visit this website.
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Thanks for explaining the real reason Peet's Coffee closed. Corporations are soulless, and are crushing the few small businesses that try to survive in America. Very sad.
I thought Coldstone Creamery was going in where the dessert place seems to be. Did that fall through? When I went to the ribbon-cutting last fall they gave away little ice cream cups (but ran out as soon as we got to the front of the line, lol).