If you've driven Mono Way in the last few months, you've probably done a double take at 736. The Pinocchio's sign is gone from the old spot, the parking lot sits quiet most afternoons, and a few blocks farther east the same red-and-green awning has reappeared at a new address. The shuffle isn't dramatic on the surface. It is, however, the kind of thing that reorganizes where people meet for lunch on a Tuesday.
Here's the local read: Sonora's food scene is quietly redistributing itself along Mono Way, and while that happens, the summer downtown calendar is doing more of the heavy lifting than usual for pulling residents back toward Washington Street.
The 736 Mono Way Shuffle
Earlier this year Pinocchio's picked up and moved down the road to 14619 Mono Way, leaving the 736 address open for the first time in a long stretch. That vacancy didn't sit long.
