Weird, I can’t find a Vietnamese restaurant called Schloss Gruber. I did find Chateau Gruber on the map, but no hint that it serves Vietnamese cuisine.

And yeah, I’d say the Chateau is Eyetalian.

I would expect the owner to drive a little tank.

Odd, you would think the place would be seething with them. Clear gap in the market.


A cuddly tank?

Ah, right, got it.

I wasted a few minutes looking for a historical explanation or rationale for the name “Chateau.” I did find a good Reddit thread, which I won’t link to, but it contains some good discussion of the restaurant. (One poster says he has spent years trying to find out why it’s called the Chateau, but come up blank.)

Other discussion in the thread;

”It’s Italian food for Irish people.”
“My family have always gone to the Chateau for funeral suppers.”
and,
”There’s so much seating, it is popular for workplace get togethers; they can always seat twenty people without a reservation.”

Several posters mentioned “toasted ravioli”, which I’ve never heard of but will now look up. I must say, I now want to go back to Waltham to eat a meal at the Chateau. Our other frequent dinner place in Waltham was the Ground Round. One day a week, they had “a penny a pound.” They weighed your children. Their meal then cost just a penny a pound. Worked for us, our kids never had any excess weight on them.

https://chateaurestaurant.com/our-story/
look at the old advertisement on this page, note the spelling of lasagna. French connection?

Another well-known Italian restaurant in the Boston area, La Hacienda in Somerville, MA. (Now closed.)

I remember this place from childhood in the suburbs of Chicago...

¡Órale, güey! Etc.

This feels like it should have happened in Florida, but it was actually in St Louis, MO, where a young woman was hit and killed by a fire truck, after she fell from an SUV.

How on earth might she fall from an SUV? I hear you ask. That's a not unreasonable question, but it is quite easy to explain, as she was dancing on the roof!

The article leaves some questions unanswered. I mean, if someone was dancing on the roof of my car, … oh, never mind.

Apparently, in that attack on the fertility clinic in Palm Springs, the person who was killed in the explosion is suspected to be the perpetrator. Police are calling it an act of terrorism.

Quote:

The sources added that Bartkus stated in writings or recordings that he was against bringing people into the world against their will

I read that a couple of times ….

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...inic-explosion

A Vermont man sued the Burlington Free Press for not covering his son’s basketball games, claiming it caused him anxiety and panic attacks.

https://vtdigger.org/2025/06/11/cour...ball-coverage/

If mods feel this should be in the a visa thread, please move it, something from SM today