Arizmendi opens tomorrow!

Arizmendi will open Wednesday and today they are putting on finishing touches. No free samples this morning – at least at 8:30 a.m.

Workers are out in force at the former site of New College, across from the Summit, which was a creamery, and is now a coffee bar/dining establishment with great light.

Formerly New College on Valencia.

A place called Second Line has applied for a liquor license for the New College location.

You can see from the close up on the windows that it’s going to be beautiful.

Close up of the windows at New College.

Further south, the owner of the Udupi Palace at 1007 Valencia St.,  watches his crew put in new windows.  No one broke the old windows, they’re just sprucing up.

New windows.

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  1. i agree with lydia and dolores on the daniel’s creamery thing. the car parts may have been next to it, plenty of auto shops on valencia in the 80s.

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  3. The SFgate article linked at the bottom of this post says the other New College building that you referred to is going to be a bit of New Orleans is coming to Valencia St in the form of a site for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Sounds good. I’ve heard that this building used to be a mortuary, anyone know if that’s true?

    http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-07-15/entertainment/21983882_1_new-orleans-preservation-hall-original-joe

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    1. Dolores: Yes, we have heard that too and we’re trying to check it out more fully. The owners have been in talks around doing exactly that, but nothing is completely settled as far as we know. Best, Lydia

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  5. I’m with Lydia. It was Daniel Creamery before it was part of New College. Daniel Creamery had an excellent selection of cheeses. For the last year or two of its life, there was a coffee shop with about four tables inside of the creamery

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    1. Brian: It may have been at one time. The sequence I know is that at one time it was Daniel Creamery, and then New College. But it could very well have been an auto shop between those two lives. Best, Lydia

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