christine in san rafael, california says sol food is “literally the best thing about san rafael.” one reason? the restaurant “keeps this gem of a note right where it belongs — on display in the glass cabinet outside the front door, where most restaurants would keep a menu.”
seeing as the note has been up for about a year and half so far, it seems angelo’s threat hasn’t caused much concern. in fact, christine says, “the place is so popular that it always has a line out the door, which (bonus!) allows me to read it over and over again.”
(see the lime-green exterior for yourself here and here.)
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203 responses so far ↓
#1
BabyTyrone
Angelo must be either colorblind or new to Marin. That color fits right in with the general California-theme-park/I drive a pickup but I eat authentic Thai food at my roadhouse bar/national historic register of buildings less than 5o years old/etc. spirit of the area.
Jun 2, 2008 at 7:00 pm rating: +8
#2
Joyful
Dear Angelo,
Thank you for your kind words! Perhaps you and your small-minded, ethno-centric friends should try the hip new restaurant, Beigey McBeigersons, just down the street. You may find it more to your liking.
Sincerely,
San Rafael
Jun 2, 2008 at 7:07 pm rating: +52
#3
Jimmy Straightline
The address block at the top is so “Dateline: San Rafael”
Jun 2, 2008 at 7:17 pm rating: +2
#4
Stitchin-Liz
Another example of a gay housewife that needs something to do with “her” ample free time.
Jun 2, 2008 at 7:24 pm rating: +1
#5
park rose
A blight and a pox upon the writer of this garish and ugly sentiment.
Jun 2, 2008 at 7:43 pm rating: +11
#6
artchickhb
There is an apartment community in Los Angeles on Wilshire Blvd that is painted baby poo yellow/green. They still manage to rent pretty well…
Jun 2, 2008 at 7:44 pm rating: +2
#7
Canthz_B
Dear Angelo,
The lime-green served its purpose. It grabbed your attention so I could grab your olive-drab money.
Mrs. (I’m in the money) Hernandez
Jun 2, 2008 at 8:05 pm rating: +13
#8
Persephone
Good lord, how tasteless to leave such a note. I don’t know if it is racist or xenophobic. This person doesn’t get out much. Depending on what city you go to in the world, some places like bright colors. I lived in Iceland for a year and the houses were all painted really bright colors that contrasted nicely with the stark volcanic landscape.
Jun 2, 2008 at 8:08 pm rating: +3
#9
jando_27
i think it’s pretty!
Jun 2, 2008 at 8:16 pm rating: +9
#10
G.Pat
Let’s hope Angelo doesn’t return to retrieve the note when it dawns on him that he’s sided more patronizers with the restaurant than he has friends to encourage not to!
Jun 2, 2008 at 8:34 pm rating: +2
#11
cricket
Dear Angelo,
coha le y caballo que usted monto adentro encendido, usted perra criticona.
gracias.
translation: Fuck you and the horse you rode in on, you picky bitch.
Jun 2, 2008 at 8:35 pm rating: +8
#12
K.
racist much?
Jun 2, 2008 at 8:38 pm rating: +3
#13
Jerlyn
I actually love that green haha
Jun 2, 2008 at 9:24 pm rating: 0
#14
Sarah
Said Angelo: “Repaint, and sin no more.” – Whiners 1:4
Jun 2, 2008 at 9:27 pm rating: +31
#15
Eric
Anyone who is an enemy of Sol Food is an enemy of mine!
Jun 2, 2008 at 9:29 pm rating: +2
#16
EricaB
I love this letter. How disgusted must you be to send a letter? Hysterical!
Personally, I’m not fond of the color either but it certainly doesn’t bother me enough to write a letter about it!
Jun 2, 2008 at 9:47 pm rating: +2
#17
claw71
Tacky decor is usually a pretty good indication you’re getting authentic cuisine…unless you’re at Applebee’s which isn’t so much tacky as it is patronizing and cliche.
Jun 2, 2008 at 10:06 pm rating: +14
#18
Lurker
That building makes me thirsty for an ice-cold margarita with extra lime!
Jun 2, 2008 at 10:06 pm rating: +5
#19
maughta
I thought at first glance that the author had signed “Anglo” which made me laugh almost, but not quite, as much as the letter itself.
Jun 2, 2008 at 10:11 pm rating: +11
#20
Resident Grammarian esq
Dear Angelo,
You seem like a nice person but your name is icky. I would much prefer something simpler with 2 syllables maximum. Until it is changed I shall cross the road everytime you approach and if I can’t (eg: no sidewalk, coming out of a car), I will spit on you instead. Furthermore I shall encourage my friends to do the same until that blight pretending to be a name is changed.
Sincerely, etc. etc.
Jun 2, 2008 at 10:34 pm rating: +26
#21
Cristina
I hope Angelo doesn’t decide to drive a mile or two down the freeway into my neighborhood. He might find the bright yellow and green house offending as well.
Jun 2, 2008 at 10:51 pm rating: 0
#22
Neil
Angelo wrote the note on New Years Eve….my guess is, the guy was partying and was tanked….and that color would be hard on the drunken eyes…and being drunk probably explains the ridiculous letter.
Although, I really like the color but then again I haven’t thrown any back yet.
Jun 2, 2008 at 10:56 pm rating: 0
#23
Naomi
I kinda like the color…
Jun 2, 2008 at 11:18 pm rating: +1
#24
unholyghost2003
Dear Angelo,
I cannot read your hand writing. Please use a computer or typewriter, preferably with a legible font like Times New Roman. Until you do so I will discourage my friends from reading your letters.
Thank you,
Mrs. Hernandez
Jun 2, 2008 at 11:35 pm rating: +13
#25
TuesdayPillow
I love lime green! Yum.
Jun 3, 2008 at 12:51 am rating: 0
#26
derek
I love lime juice! I love lime juice….-shrugs-
Jun 3, 2008 at 2:03 am rating: 0
#27
leigh
That letter is perfect example of why people from Sonoma County make fun of people from Marin County. :p
Jun 3, 2008 at 2:10 am rating: +2
#28
RALPHY
I know nothing of the ilk of Marin county, but Angelo’s comment was trifling and uncalled for. Although the color isn’t something that I would paint my house, here in Houston, it’s eye-catching and does make a statment about the overall theme of the place. If it appeals, you go in and check out the food. If it doesn’t, you go down to the “patronizing and cliche Applebee’s”(thanks claw).
Jun 3, 2008 at 4:12 am rating: +7
#29
Canthz_B
I think the point, though not very subtly made, is please keep within the norm of your surroundings…maybe tone down to pastels.
In my old neighborhood someone, from a locale not to be named, painted their house an outlandish hot-pink.
I’m sure they liked it, but it stuck out like a sore thumb.
I think that is what Antonio was trying to say, in very intemperate terms.
That having been said, shut up, Antonio. You go there for the food, not the color scheme.
Jun 3, 2008 at 5:47 am rating: 0
#30
amy d
I’m sure Mrs. Hernandez cried into her maragrita at the loss of such a faithful and reasoned customer.
Jun 3, 2008 at 8:20 am rating: +5
#31
Super Tash
Forget the colour of the building – what about the sky in the link picture. I’m immigrating thats all there is to it (despite being British Summertime it is VERY grey out there)
Jun 3, 2008 at 9:11 am rating: 0
#32
Detective Julie
Angelo is obviously Murky Dismal from Rainbow Brite.
Jun 3, 2008 at 9:23 am rating: +14
#33
Joseph R.
I am dealing with “Lime Green Blight” on my squash plants as we speak.
Jun 3, 2008 at 10:03 am rating: +2
#34
Epiphany
Well if Angelo is her only customer…than she’s screwed. No one wants to eat at a place that’s painted vomit colored.
Jun 3, 2008 at 10:38 am rating: 0
#35
gradytripp
If you’re vomit is colored green like that…I am pretty sure you have stomach cancer.
Jun 3, 2008 at 11:40 am rating: +3
#36
claw71
Angelo is of Mexican heritage and prefers to dine in taquerias that feature pink stucco on the outside and bright orange accents on the interior. He probably woudn’t mind some flypaper hanging over his table either.
Also if you’re in California and want to have a little fun start referring to Mexicans as Puerto Ricans. They hate that shit. Carlos Mencia would stab you in the eye if you called him a Puerto Rican. Beaner? No problemo. Spic? Whatever homes. Wetback? Si. PR? You won’t make it home alive.
Puerto Ricans get pretty pissed if you refer to them as Cuban, just in case you really want to get one of them riled up. Cubans don’t have a particular hot button, they’re always ready to blow.
Of course nothing really beats the reaction you get when you call somebody of Chinese heritage Korean.
You can have a little fun with Europeans but they won’t kill you. About the best you can do is get Irish worked up over being called Scottish but they just turn red, buy some Guinness and start listening to House of Pain. Jump Around
Jun 3, 2008 at 11:58 am rating: +6
#37
Nix
So I actually ate at that place for the first time recently, saw the note, and knew it would be EXCELLENT for passiveaggressivenotes. Alas, I had forgotten my camera! I’m glad it made it here anyway!
Jun 3, 2008 at 12:08 pm rating: 0
#38
pistola
Dear Sol Food,
Could you please paint your icky restaurant a more tasteful color, perhaps a mellow burgundy that would blend in with one of the many wine and cheese boutiques.
Thanks,
Self righteous white people
Jun 3, 2008 at 12:20 pm rating: +3
#39
Brian
Yeah, just the other day a friend tried to tell me about a restaurant. He kept rambling on and on about the food until finally I just had to jump in, ‘Damnit man! Who cares about the food? Tell me about the exterior paint job!’
Jun 3, 2008 at 12:24 pm rating: +25
#40
ryan
whatever! that color scheme is awesome
Jun 3, 2008 at 12:35 pm rating: +1
#41
secondsout
Me, I go to a restaurant for food. I don’t tend to patronize restaurants based on the color of the paint. Or am I just crazy?
Jun 3, 2008 at 1:07 pm rating: +1
#42
Wade
Now San Raphael is famous for two kinds of green.
Jun 3, 2008 at 1:38 pm rating: +4
#43
foxchyck
Both the color, and the letter, are very very Marin (entitled people…we has them).
I’ve never eaten at Sol, but I’ve never found the color to be anything other than fun when I drive by it. And I chuckle that it is a few blocks away from Walgreen’s as you drive down third street. “Walgreen…Green wall …hah!” (Yes, my inner mologue is a dork.)
Jun 3, 2008 at 1:44 pm rating: +5
#44
SaraJean
Dear Mrs. Hernandez-
Though I enjoyed the meal, I am quite sure that the color of paint on the exterior of your building gave me an awful case of heartburn… This heartburn made it unbearable for me to canvas the town to find other nonsensical things to complain about. I am very displeased at your garish and ugly taste…
Angelo
Jun 3, 2008 at 1:58 pm rating: +2
#45
cricket
Dear Angelo,
NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Jun 3, 2008 at 2:05 pm rating: +1
#46
cricket
Ohhh, it’s MORIN County. I thought Angelo said he was from MORON County.
in his case, it would be much more fitting.
Jun 3, 2008 at 2:08 pm rating: +3
#47
Sheepish
“There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch. “
Jun 3, 2008 at 2:11 pm rating: +6
#48
claw71
The exterior of this place doesn’t look too bad. The vibrant green is used on the interior but the exterior looks fine which makes this complaint even more perplexing.
I’ll pass on a place if it looks like a dump. If the people who own it don’t have the sense to make it look inviting then they probably don’t have the sense to pitch the chicken when it goes rancid. Packaging appeal is everything which is why I groom my pubes, although I have been sporting a furified ‘fro lately. I rock rough and tough with my Afro puffs.
I can see if Angelo doesn’t dig the color scheme and if it’s harsh enough that’s cool if he doesn’t want to eat there. There are places that I prefer to order takeout from because the interior is uncomfortable. It’s hard to enjoy your meal when the flickering fluorescent tubes are making you queasy and there are some nasty colors. Under no circumstances is a note like this an appropriate response.
Jun 3, 2008 at 2:13 pm rating: +1
#49
S
I love it when people think they have so much power when they say they’re gonna tell all their friends not to do something. Bitch please, you ain’t got friends!
Jun 3, 2008 at 3:13 pm rating: +2
#50
anglophile
Just think: all this nastiness could have been avoided with the offer of a couple of free tembleques.
Jun 3, 2008 at 3:51 pm rating: 0
#51
Tengo hambre
I grew up in Marin County. It’s very hard to be anything but rich, white and well-educated there.
People who live in Marin truly believe that they poop rainbows.
Mexicans and other dark skinned people are okay, as long as they remember to stay in their place and stay away from the daughters of the ruling class.
I’ve never eaten at Sol Food but now I intend to do so as soon as possible.
Viva la lime green!
Jun 3, 2008 at 4:38 pm rating: +5
#52
agatha christie
The color sort of reminds me of lime sherbet.
And did anyone catch this, or does the last letter in “Angelo” look like an “A”? I might just need reading glasses, but then again, it would explain the self-righteous advice on exterior design…
Jun 3, 2008 at 5:55 pm rating: 0
#53
cricket
“Generalize much, Tengo?”
…yeah, pretty easy when you’ve actually LIVED there as Tengo has.
I take it you’re one of the rich, white, rainbow poopers of Marin County. lol.
Jun 3, 2008 at 6:00 pm rating: +2
#54
Christina
The lime green paint was fucking delicious
Jun 3, 2008 at 6:16 pm rating: 0
#55
KittyKat
Oh NO! You’ll draw the wrath of Ralphy! May the PAN-Godess have mercy on your soul.
Jun 3, 2008 at 6:19 pm rating: 0
#56
ErikaBlare
Ah, another perfect PAN post… Another psychotically irreverent note, CanthzB riles the masses with his unique brand of historic/political banter, Claw attempts to offend as many minorities as possible AND describes his ‘fro pubes, even Ralphy emerges with another blase attempt to alientate the frequent troublemakers. *contented sigh* My day is now complete.
Jun 3, 2008 at 6:58 pm rating: +12
#57
Joy
Dear Mrs. Hernandez,
Those brown and black colors you selected for your skin and hair are garish and ugly. They may be appropriate for Puerto Rico, but not for Marin County.
Angelo, whose skin is “warm and colorful,” but not too “warm and colorful,” if you catch my drift
Jun 4, 2008 at 4:44 pm rating: 0
#58
cabezon
Hello God,
I will no longer patronize your planet because you have painted your fields with such garish greens. At times there are purples reds oranges and green in one place.
This simply will not do.
Sincerely,
Cabezon
Jun 4, 2008 at 7:24 pm rating: +3
#59
Shane
Can I get a transcript for this letter? Angelo’s handwriting is so garish and ugly. Much less attractive than the lime green walls.
Jun 5, 2008 at 10:41 am rating: 0
#60
Russ
This is a sick person. Who cares about the colors??
http://death-sentences.blogspot.com/
Jun 7, 2008 at 3:09 am rating: 0
#61
Olivia
I actually like that color. It’s cute ‘n’ peppy.
Wow, Angelo is pretty douchey, isn’t he?
Jun 9, 2008 at 3:28 am rating: 0
#62
Mishee
I saw a Puerto Rican restaurant in downtown Sunnyvale this weekend, and although the storefront is normal looking the sign they had hanging under the awning… yep, you guessed it… bright green.
Maybe it’s the national color of Puerto Rican restaurants?
Jun 9, 2008 at 8:37 am rating: +1
#63
Monica B
The beautiful thing about this is, RIGHT NEXT DOOR to Sol Food is Mambo’s Cafe, which is a brilliant shade of Orange that is far more heinous than the selected green shades utilized by Sol Food.
While Sol Food is not somewhere I like very much, my entire family and friends choose to go there frequently. However i would not keep my patronage from an establishment based exclusively on the hue of paint used on their building. I save that privledge for the assholes that use their money to fund pro-life terrorists or racist stupid behavior such as bitching about building colors.
Jun 9, 2008 at 12:34 pm rating: 0
#64
dan
Apparently the building wasn’t noticeable enough because a car crashed right into it.
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_9675729
Jun 24, 2008 at 1:09 am rating: 0
#65
jelloegg
I think the exterior decorating is very pretty. It’s such a pretty green.
Jul 2, 2008 at 2:59 pm rating: 0
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