South Pacific, Newton, MA (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Oct 4, 2012 12:19 PM On 2012-10-04 11:36, modbetty wrote: I don't have high hopes for the interior at all,based on the photo of the gutted kitchen posted to the FB page on 9/27. Sounds like the local folks can't get any additional info about the closing either. First Pago Pago and now SoPa, say it ain't so, Massachusetts! Pure assumption, I say. The kitchen equipment might have been sold as a whole to some other Chinese operator, or taken by the family to open a new location, who knows. That stuff is generic and more re-usable. The urban archeologist does not accept certainty of annihilation of a place until proven otherwise. I've heard stories like "...and the place stood locked up with all the decor inside for half a year until a new owner threw it all away" And I've heard stories of "... this place was completely gutted within a day" - which one do you choose to believe? :D There is enough love for this place out there when looking at this thread - now put your professed love into action and go there and talk to neighbors and research how you can get inside.

On 2012-10-04 11:36, modbetty wrote:
I don't have high hopes for the interior at all,based on the photo of the gutted kitchen posted to the FB page on 9/27. Sounds like the local folks can't get any additional info about the closing either. First Pago Pago and now SoPa, say it ain't so, Massachusetts!

Pure assumption, I say. The kitchen equipment might have been sold as a whole to some other Chinese operator, or taken by the family to open a new location, who knows. That stuff is generic and more re-usable. The urban archeologist does not accept certainty of annihilation of a place until proven otherwise.

I've heard stories like "...and the place stood locked up with all the decor inside for half a year until a new owner threw it all away"

And I've heard stories of "... this place was completely gutted within a day" - which one do you choose to believe? :D

There is enough love for this place out there when looking at this thread - now put your professed love into action and go there and talk to neighbors and research how you can get inside.

Post #654408 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Oct 4, 2012 12:19 PM