[yareally]

Didn't realize they used to be downtown. That was before my time. Happy Greek right? Too bad that closed about a year ago. Great food.

There's a Vietnamese place right next to Microcenter on bethel that has some killer BBQ pork fried rice though. That's usually my excuse to go.

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Yes. According to my understanding of the lore: Microcenter was once just a small computer shop on High Street. A little mom-and-pop place -- you've probably been to one at some point. It got bigger. (That was all before my time, too.)

The Greek place that stands out so favorably in my memory is Lashish the Greek. It's right across Bethel from Microcenter, in the strip mall behind the McDonald's. Looks like it's still running. I should stop in there again sometime.

Last time I was there it was empty except for us and the owner. Friendly dude. He stopped at our table after we had some time to finish eating and we chatted about food, food quality, and the Gipsy Kings album that he was playing.

[yareally]

Thanks for the tip! I'll check out Lashish next time I'm up there.

So many great ethnic restaurants in between Henderson and Bethel.

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It's a quite wonderful area to empty one's pocketbook. I really do miss living near(ish) to there.

Lots of memories, and all of them are good.

(Including that one time when a buddy and I bought a used 3D printer out of the trunk of a fellow geek's sedan, in cash, in the Microcenter parking lot. We actually went to Microcenter looking to buy a resin printer, and we definitely succeeded -- just not in the manner in which we had expected to succeed. That's been a solid little machine for a few years now and was precisely as it was described.)