Boulevard Bites

by Sheila D'Amico and Toni Locke

### New life springs at the corner of High & Fairfax! In March, Mike Amari opened High St. Discount. He prides himself on low prices for a variety of items including groceries, ice cream, kitchen items, tools, batteries, cigarettes, and selected produce out in front. Open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day, High St. Discount may soon be another place to pick up the Metro. ### Next door, Lee's Fish & Chips expects to open soon. Owner Un Lee says it will be primarily a take-out place serving (natch!) fish & chips and soft drinks. Lee's will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. ### At the northern side of Metro territory in the Dimond District, Wayland's Meats has been serving satisfied Dimond customers since last August at 3400 Fruitvale Ave. Owner Wayland Ng 's aunt owned Diamond Meats there for 37 years. After she retired, Wayland took over, remodeled the store, and reopened the family operation, open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days a week and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sundays. Sam Cohen, DIA President, urges support of this business and other new Dimond businesses such as the Chinese restaurant Full Moon on the corner of Dimond Way and MacArthur. ### Between the Dimond and the Laurel, Carlos Salazar and Carolyn Wells team up to provide a valuable range of computer services from their well-stocked shop at 2710 MacArthur Boulevard, across from the Fruitvale Presbyterian Church. Service Innovations Computers sells and repairs new and used PCs. As a supporter of the Dimond Merchants Association and the Dimond Improvement Association, S.I. Computers in a year of operation has become a highly valued neighbor. Its hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Phone 530-0204, e-mail info\@sicomputers.net, Web site www.sicomputers.net. ### In the Laurel on MacArthur at Patterson, Africa By the Bay expects to open towards the end of April on the site of the former Chicken Coop. Owner Cheikh Diakhate says this family-owned business has been in Oakland since 1989. He'll be moving his current store, now located on Lakeshore, because he lives in the Laurel and because he believes "the Laurel has a future."