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TamalPie Owner to Open Playa, a 'Modern Mexican' Restaurant, in Former Champagne Space Downtown
Karen Goldberg says she's excited to bring a new restaurant to downtown.

For more than a year as it underwent repairs for water damage and sat vacant, the space formerly occupied by Champagne French Bakery Cafe was at the center of the Mill Valley rumor mill: What was going to move into the prominent space at 41 Throckmorton Ave., where Champagne had been since 2002 and where the legendary deli/cafe Sonapa Farms had been from 1959 to 1995 (with a Noah’s Bagels stint from 1998 to 2000 in between)?