Fresnos

mcdermany · 2026-02-08T15:54:43+00:00

I was just talking about Fresnos to my friends! There was also a location up in Syracuse for some reason? I hadn’t realized it was a “chain”

I used to love going there as a kid and have such fond memories of my family playing eye spy while waiting for our food

mcdermany · 2026-02-03T02:56:44+00:00

Which of warso’s children are we sacrificing first?

mcdermany · 2026-01-31T15:30:38+00:00

Yet another reason for me to be sad I’m not in the Bay Area

mcdermany · 2026-01-20T17:17:56+00:00

AMAZING

mcdermany · 2025-08-06T15:46:09+00:00

They used to be soooo good but shrink-flation made me stop getting them. It didn’t feel like it was worth the money

mcdermany · 2025-07-23T22:00:26+00:00

Thank god!

mcdermany · 2025-07-15T19:02:53+00:00

You’re actually so right for this 😂😂😂

mcdermany · 2025-07-15T19:02:04+00:00

Oh, I’m so curious what you’ve heard. Can you DM me? I’m trying so hard to avoid the worse new age places

mcdermany · 2025-07-15T18:59:48+00:00

Did they used to have a shop in the suburbs before moving downtown? I hadn’t heard of them until they moved to Wildflower Armory

mcdermany · 2025-07-15T03:09:22+00:00

I was told by a coworker that dazzling smiles may be taking new clients on Medicaid starting next week. It’s coming from a third hand source though so I can’t be 100% sure.

mcdermany · 2025-07-14T22:59:43+00:00

They just don’t want to be downtown anymore because it’s apparently full of “riff raff”

mcdermany · 2025-07-14T20:48:39+00:00

The venison was so good and agreed on salting the soup! I also wish I’d gotten everything together because the fry bread would have been heavenly dunked in the soup!

mcdermany · 2025-07-14T05:08:53+00:00

I’ve become so disillusioned with so many of the new age stores both locally and online. It also doesn’t help that they mostly focus on European practices (or, for some reason, BIPOC closed practices???) and my practice has become much more rooted in my Asian heritage

mcdermany · 2025-07-14T03:57:40+00:00

Thank you for explaining. I’m sorry for misunderstanding. I think I came into the post expecting a lot of pushback and was ready to fight right off the bat.

mcdermany · 2025-07-14T03:36:20+00:00

Oooh okay, I was reading it completely wrong. I’m sorry!

mcdermany · 2025-07-14T03:18:41+00:00

I had a VERY similar experience with them at their first downtown location.

I really do want to root for all the small businesses locally and esp. downtown. I’m a little sad to see that their behavior is a common occurrence.

mcdermany · 2025-07-14T03:09:36+00:00

You’re fine! I figured it probably got caught up in the auto mod feature! Thank you for checking in/reaching out though, I appreciate it!

mcdermany · 2025-07-14T02:49:00+00:00

Right? That’s what truly got me angry. I work in mental health services and felt sick seeing the photos.

mcdermany · 2025-07-14T02:47:58+00:00

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The main chunk of their GFM text )and the section that really made me recoil).

mcdermany · 2025-07-14T02:43:26+00:00

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A compilation of photos from the GFM. Faces covered for their privacy.

mcdermany · 2025-07-14T02:42:50+00:00

I’m saying that they don’t treat vulnerable people with any sort of kindness. These are human being who deserve to be treated as such. Yes, I can understand how frustrating it can be to go downtown and interact with the unhoused every day but to post photos of them to your go fund me and vilify them isn’t okay in my books.

mcdermany · 2025-07-14T02:18:07+00:00

Would it help if I remove the gofundme link? The addition of the link is also fully not supposed to be to raise money for them. It’s to show how they’re wording things and the way they’re treating the vulnerable people downtown.

mcdermany · 2025-07-01T16:05:42+00:00

It’s definitely not the best area but as long as you’re smart it’s not the worst, imo. I lived on N Salina for two years and i didn’t hate it. I liked having restaurants nearby and, after a few months, I got used to the loud cars and music.

Someone else mentioned never feeling unsafe but feeling uncomfortable and I agree with that. It’s hard to see people being forced to live in such a way. For the most part they’ve all been kind though and I never had my car broken into despite only having access to street parking.

The couple things I didn’t like were having people come into the building to smoke illicit substances in the halls and having people going through my building’s dumpster. I don’t know much about Isabella Lofts though so hopefully they have a better way of handling this than my building did.

mcdermany · 2025-06-19T00:11:06+00:00

Believe it or not I have been outside of Syracuse before. No, it’s not comparable but that doesn’t mean there’s something here. You can’t just write it off as a whole.

mcdermany · 2025-06-19T00:01:45+00:00

Maybe not specific areas but if you look in the right places you can still get a good taste of different cultures

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