Posted on 01/18/2014 3:56:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
Local news story and the people who own the place and their employees are good people too.
Sadly, the employees are now unemployed.
I thought you mentioned you liked that place. I don’t think I had been at that one in years. I always used to wonder if it was related to Three Flames.
This is the one down on Hillsdale
Didn’t the breakfast place near Nob Hill used to be a Flames, several iterations ago?
bummer ate breakfast there nearly every sunday morning for 20yrs
Not so much for the giant billowing fire as it is for you having a heart attack at 0230. It is not easy looking for house numbers posted in all sorts of different locations (or missing) while trying to see over the flashing lights and avoid hotting the cars parked in the street.
Your memory is better than mine - its been the Uptown Los Gatos Diner for as long as I can recall.
LG Cafe, I should say.
oh noes ! that’s too bad.
I saw the remains this morning and will miss the place.
Which Snob Hill?
The one in LG?
THE Iron Skillet has been there forever.
I don’t think it was a 3 flames.
I could be wrong, but I think it was at one time. Didn’t it also used to be called something with, “skillet,” in the name?
It’s not called iron skillet now, is it?
The Iron Skillet?
and to lower the odds of a no knock SWAT raid on the wrong address. Posting names, photos, and a pro-police union sign might be a good idea too.
A National treasure.
Amazing what too much money, insanity, and liberal guilt can achieve.
On Santa Teresa Blvd. near Nob Hill Market? I think it was still a “Flames” when I was there about a year ago. It had gone way downhill. There used to be numerous mile-high cakes and pies in the display case. Now there were only a couple and they looked “old .” And...the place smelled like sewage. Too bad, I used to like them, as close to a real diner as you’d get in So. San Jose.
My sister lives only about four blocks from this restaurant.
And there was that big warehouse fire a week ago Thursday. I work a block away from that one.
There have been a LOT of fires in San Jose in the last week. At least the fire at the Flames doesn’t sound like arson (the one up the street from me last week was).
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