eastdowner

Mandola's Deli at the corner of Leeland and Cullen is now open for dinner and beer/wine. The owners have continued their awesome Italian lunch menu into the evening and added flat screen tvs, outdoor seating and an impressive beer and wine selection. Another local East End spot to check out, if you haven't been.

While I like the interior decor, your prices are astronomical compared to your competitors. Zake, Soma, Fish, Blue Fish and Uptown Sushi all have much better pricing. Zake runs a happy hour with $3 rolls and $2 domestics. I had trouble finding a specialty roll of yours under $20. 25% off happy hour isn't quite cutting it. I have only been there three times, but the place has always been scarcely populated. Any chance of lowering prices in this economy?

Sorry I offended you. We get A LOT of spammers through here who post links and then disappear. Probably four or five a day. I have to be careful.

Copy - no harm, no foul. The East End is transitional at best and gets plenty of negative attention. Those of us living here are at least encouraged by attempts to improve the neighborhood.

A couple of things...

First, this is starting to smell like spam. Eastdowner joins HAIF, posts a link to a web site, then never contributes again. Seems like he's just trying to generate links to his web site and gain a favorable ranking in the search engines based on the goodwill that HAIF has with Google, etc...

Who runs the web site he's promoting? Can't really tell. The whois information for it is hiding behind an anonymous proxy. The web site claims that it's run by the East Downtown Management District. Anyone ever heard of this organization? Sounds awfully quasi-government, doesn't it? I don't think it is.

Going to the web site's "Contact" page reveals two addresses. Looking them up in Google shows one is a direct mail services company. The other address is either a shotgun shack converted into a shop, or an anonymous warehouse looking building, I can't tell which side of the street it's supposed to be.

Finally, has anyone seen the "EaDo" logos that are supposedly on the street signs in that area? The web site shows them, but it could just be a Photoshop job for all we know to once again make this look like a legitimate community group. Especially since the shadow of the sign on top stops right at the EaDo logo on the bottom sign.

All this web site is is a directory of businesses, which have presumably paid to be included in this directory. If that's all it is, then this is just a piece of spam.

I'm going to remove the web site name and link from this thread. If I'm proven wrong, I'll restore them. But for right now this all looks fishy.

Editor - I'm not promoting jack. I'm just a resident in the area and live at the Delano City Views condos. I thought this was an information forum and I was supplying...uh, information. Feel free to take this post off as well - I'm sure I have a ponzi or pyramid scheme in here somewhere.

Everyone in the area seen the website? Seems like a positive push for EaDo.

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Can you confirm this? Source? Photo?

I live three blocks from there. I can confirm it. All the warehouses have been torn down.