Restaurant of the Week: Nancy’s Tortilleria

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Nancy’s Tortilleria, 348 S. Towne Ave. (at 3rd), Pomona

Many are the times I’ve passed this Pepto-Bismol pink building with green awnings on Towne Avenue at Third Street and thought I should go in sometime. They seemed to sell food in addition to housemade tortillas, but would they have seating? Not knowing what to expect, I put it off.

With business in Pomona on Wednesday afternoon, I decided to try Nancy’s for lunch while I was in the neighborhood.

Nancy’s is three businesses in one. Their business card calls it Nancy’s Tortilleria Carniceria and Deli. Besides the tortilla operation, Nancy’s is a small market with a large meat section. Up front the deli sells takeout tacos, burritos, sopes and other items.

The white-jacketed counterman lifted lids off a series of metal containers to show off the various meats. They all looked good; I had planned to get carne asada but went with chicken instead.

I got a chicken burrito and a small horchata to drink ($6.23 total). There is no seating inside but two tables outside in the parking lot. Not the most pleasant seating on a blazingly hot day, but at least the building cast a shadow over them.

My lunch was very good, helped along by the very fresh and tasty tortilla. I’d go back, and if you don’t mind takeout, I’d recommend Nancy’s to you too. With that color scheme you won’t have trouble finding it.

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Read RC Now now

This newspaper launched a Rancho Cucamonga-themed blog named RC Now. It’s having what you might call a soft opening, which is why you might not know about it yet.

The main blogger is my colleague Wendy Leung, with some kibitzing from colleague Canan Tasci, and there’s some fun stuff there.

Even if you don’t live or work in Rancho, I recommend the very funny posts Councilman on the Job Hunt Part 2, Children Say the Darndest Things, RC Day at the L.A. County Fair and Government Containment. You might also find the news about the Archibald Library remodeling and a possible Morton’s Steakhouse of interest. (Those are two separate projects; Rancho isn’t pioneering a library/steakhouse.)

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Dueling signs

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For two neighboring businesses on Claremont’s Indian Hill Boulevard, it’s fire vs. water. If you stagger out of the first with a fire within, the second would seem well-equipped to douse it. Although you might not appreciate their angle of attack.

(Actually, A Fire Within is a pottery studio. Colonics is just what you think it is.)

The photo was taken by me but was suggested by Marshall Taylor, the mayor’s husband. Um, did you want credit for that, Mr. Taylor?

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Goddess Pomona, Missouri

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website, the plaza was built in 1922 as “America’s first shopping center” and contains 14 blocks of shops, artworks and fountains. “Only Rome has more fountains than Kansas City,” the website brags. Who knew?

As for the figure in question, “down the street in a quiet courtyard sits an original bronze of Pomona by Italian sculptor Donatello Gabrielli,” the center’s website continues.

According to the plaque at its base, “From his original model only two figures have ever been made — this bronze casting and a marble carving that stands in the king’s palace, Bangkok, Thailand.”

Wow!

Anyone want to visit Thailand and send me a photo?

Shapton, by the way, sees a marble Goddess daily in her display case in the Library. That one is more modestly attired than the one in rollickin’ Kansas City.

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We’ve got photos (sometimes)

Notice anything different on the blog lately? Namely, an occasional photo?

Sorry this (ahem) innovation took so long but your blogger isn’t the savviest at tech-oriented stuff. I procrastinated at trying to figure it out. It didn’t help that I barely have time to write these furshlugginer posts anyway in between columns.

But a colleague has helped me out on the computer aspect of posting photos, and while I still can’t do so on my own, I’m slowly absorbing the multiple steps required.

(Sizing photos to fit has been the big challenge, each requiring three or four attempts, the post going up in a dead period in an afternoon, coming down for resizing, going up, coming down, etc., until the photo looks right and the post can be safely scheduled to pop up automatically the next morning.)

Readers of my column — and that’s all of you, right? — occasionally send me funny photos from around the community. The way my column is presently configured, i.e., vertically, it’s virtually impossible for me to use photos in the paper anymore.

But what I’ve decided to do is post such photos on this blog from time to time, amidst the texty stuff you’ve come to expect. I’ve saved a few submissions from readers over previous months that may still be relevant. I’ll take photos myself.

Look for the first submission Wednesday.

As we approach The David Allen Blog’s first anniversary, who says this blog can’t learn new tricks?

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