WALNUT CREEK, CALIFORNIA – Some restaurants inspire so much excitement that it can be hard to believe the food and atmosphere could really live up to the hype.
On the excitement side, I’ve never seen anything quite like the community’s feelings about the launch of Original Joe’s in Walnut Creek.
As soon as the nearly century-old, family-owned Italian restaurant group announced that a new location would come to the former Stanford’s near Broadway Plaza, the local community followed every update, passionately waiting for the day that Original Joe’s would finally open.
I covered Original Joe’s extensively in the lead-up to the opening. Now, I finally got a chance to stop by and have a meal there…