September 26
...serving up your daily dish.
It has come to our attention that the restaurant and shopping district on Walnut Street in Montclair is being called (well by some people) WOHO ... as in SOHO. Nevermind that SOHO stands for South of Houston, and WOHO stands for West of .... um.... Nevermind. WOHO has that urban-chic all-cap SOHO TRIBECA DUMBO cache.
Why that's even more pretentious than calling an online magazine Barista! Or is it?
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I guess they figured WOHO is classier that actually using the beginning of Walnut to make WAHOO. I reject the entire concept, except for the Playful Planter - that is my kind of thing.
Posted by: Suzette | Sep 27, 2004 1:38:56 PM
Passing through "WOHO", I've noticed that semi-new sushi place on the corner of Walnut and Pine (I think). Anyone tried? Any good?
Posted by: Erin | Sep 27, 2004 4:53:27 PM
This is an easy one.
Either "NoBlo" for North of Bloomfield (Avenue) or
"WeBlo" for West of Bloomfield (the Township)
Think how neat it would be to suggest to your date that you would like to go out to drinks & dinner tonight to WeBlo (if you're feeling lucky) or to NoBlo (if you're feeling unlucky)
They are both geographically accurate and roll off the tongue (probably a bad choice of words here)
Posted by: doubleentendre | Sep 27, 2006 5:08:34 PM
