When First Awakenings leaves the ATC and moves up to the old Coco’s Big Boy. Also, they should offer a carry-out that harkens to the past use of the property. It used to be a transfer lot for the garbage trucks and storage for dumpsters. Many of the dumpsters were tagged in spray paint “Rhino Lunch Box”. Would make a great inside joke.
“Contrary to what people may think, we were not pushed out, we chose to move,” said Craig Bell, co-owner of the popular restaurant.
Bell said that both the American Tin Cannery developer Comstock Properties and property owner the Cannery Row Company wanted to keep First Awakenings in its current location at 125 Ocean View Blvd., but “we saw an opportunity and wanted to take it.”
The new location at the well-traversed intersection at Lighthouse and David avenues in Monterey has provided space to create an outdoor dining patio that will be slightly larger than the existing one at their current location.