A new pizza and wing place is opening in the St. John’s Soulfood space at 1524 N Vasco Road. Source

The City of Pleasanton has posted a development notice for a Philz Coffee just off Valley Ave in the old KFC building. 1803 Santa Rita Rd. Source: Brian Gong on Facebook

Top 500, who officially validates the list of the world’s most powerful computers, has published its latest rankings and the Lab’s new computer, El Capitan, is officially the world’s most powerful computer. Read more about this tremendous technical achievement here: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3607696/el-capitan-bumps-frontier-to-claim-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-title.html

Lanna Thai has opened a Hot Pot has restaurant next door to their current restaurant at 2256 Las Positas Rd. LT Hot Pot Facebook

Meadowlark Dairy, the famous drive through soft serve ice cream shop in Pleasanton, has announced they’ll be opening a 2nd location in downtown Livermore hopefully sometime around April 2025. They’ll be in the old Bank of the West building at 2287 Second Street. They won’t have a drive thru when they open but they’ve said…

Tacos Livermore at 2181 First Street (formerly Mario’s French Dips) is opening its doors Thursday from 9 am to 11 pm as a soft launch. Stop on by and let us know what you think. Menu at the bottom of this page: https://urbannibble.com/restaurants/Tacos-Livermore/

Source: alamedacountyca.gov/rovresults/252/

The Costco website has posted the opening day for the new Pleasanton warehouse and it’s November 27, 2024, the day before Thanksgiving. I know this isn’t Livermore news, but I imagine it’ll make our Costco a little easier to park (and get gas) at in the near term.

With some help from the /r/Livermore crew on Reddit we compiled a list of every restaurant and retail opening and closing we could think of in 2024. If you can think of others please leave a comment on our Facebook post. Petra Middle Eastern Cuisine has closed 4524 Las Positas Rd AJ’s Family Cyclery openedAnd…

Here are some pictures from the early samplings at The Bourbon Pear, which is presumably opening very soon on First Street in the old Plucked/Fat Chance Food Hall location. (2062 First Street) Lamb Shank over cheddar grits, Wente “Charles Wetmore” Cabernet Demi glacé, gremolata. (Photos from the The Bourbon Pear Facebook page) Wagu Burger Shrimp…