Hope and despair make unlikely neighbors, but they maintain an uneasy coexistence on one north 优蜜传媒 street.
Two of the busiest and most beloved restaurants in the city thrive in all their unpretentious glory on Knudsen Drive, a commercial/industrial road just off Olive Drive that runs parallel, for a short distance, west of Highway 99.
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