665836 Mon Nov 09 11:04:29 -0800 2009 13 12 Boston Area 0 5167454 Does anyone have any memories of the first Joyce Chen on Concord Ave, opposite the reservoir, early 60's? (Not the one on Rindge.) Or am I getting senile? Mon Nov 09 11:04:29 -0800 2009 18003 Runningmom 1 5167483 I remember Rindge quite well and for some reason I remember the previous incarnation being on Memorial Drive - anyone else remember that? Mon Nov 09 11:13:28 -0800 2009 5167454 12990 Northender 2 5167632 Apparently there were Joyce Chen restaurants on both Memorial Drive and Mass. Ave in the early 70s. Mon Nov 09 11:57:36 -0800 2009 5167483 90936 Kenji 2 5167661 Yep. I remember eating at the Memorial Drive location in the fall of 1971. if memory serves it was razed shortly thereafter to make way for an MIT dormitory. Mon Nov 09 12:09:51 -0800 2009 5167483 177209 PinchOfSalt 3 5168126 PoS, your memory serves very well. I enjoyed both the weeknight buffet and ordering from the menu there for several years. Mon Nov 09 14:20:53 -0800 2009 5167661 11331 peregrine 1 5167502 My memories are a little vague as well, but wasn't it in a small Japanese style house a few doors down from the Sozio store? Mon Nov 09 11:20:39 -0800 2009 5167454 197303 Chicken with a Capon 2 5167996 I believe you're thinking of Little Osaka, also of blessed memory. Mon Nov 09 13:46:40 -0800 2009 5167502 13396 Velda Mae 3 5168081 That's exactly right - the first place I ever tried Sushi.. (and sake) Mon Nov 09 14:08:42 -0800 2009 5167996 12990 Northender 1 5167528 They also had one right outside of the transportation building when that building in downtown opened up years ago. Mon Nov 09 11:27:21 -0800 2009 5167454 13028 kobuta 1 5167561 Concord Avenue was the site of Joyce Chen's first restaurant, which opened in 1958. The Rindge Avenue restaurant opened in 1973. Mon Nov 09 11:37:53 -0800 2009 5167454 90936 Kenji 2 5167592 Thank you thank you. I remember eating there as a young girl with my uncle who ordered a whole fish, something I doubt you could have gotten at any suburban Chinese restaurant at the time. Years later, I think she had an Asian house goods store on Mass Ave. in East Arlington, but it could have been owned by someone else. Mon Nov 09 11:46:46 -0800 2009 5167561 18003 Runningmom 2 5168119 I remember the Concord Ave. location very well! It was one of the first restaurants I went to when I came this area in 1959. JC's was absolutely a revelation after the subgum chowmein and egg foo young I had eaten in the few Chinese restaurants in Cleveland in the 1940-50s! She had a cooking show on Channel 2 for a while as well. Mon Nov 09 14:19:15 -0800 2009 5167561 11331 peregrine 1 5167776 Wow- I remember this spot. Its actually often reflected on in my family- my mother still compares all Chinese food to Joyce Chen and misses it dearly. I believe that my first ever Chinese meal was at the Rindge Ave location. Mon Nov 09 12:43:56 -0800 2009 5167454 180029 fmcoxe6188 1 5168249 When did the final incarnation of Joyce Chen close? I noticed that the city of Cambridge has named a corner of a street that intersects with Concord Ave (can't remember which) Joyce Chen Square. Off topic, whatever happened to Tokyo restaurant near Fresh Pond? That place has been vacant for years. Mon Nov 09 15:01:21 -0800 2009 5167454 80950 CambridgeKathy