Shalom Y'all
A Portland Israeli/Mediterranean restaurant in the chat's vocabulary continuously since **2021-03-26** and the principal pre-Blutos Mediterranean default. **23 corpus mentions** across **4 senders and 5 years**, with [[Daniel Miller]] as principal proponent and [[Evan Bbbender]] as principal swing vote.
Shalom Y'all
A Portland Israeli/Mediterranean restaurant in the chat's vocabulary continuously since 2021-03-26 and the principal pre-Blutos Mediterranean default. 23 corpus mentions across 4 senders and 5 years, with Daniel Miller as principal proponent and Evan Bbbender as principal swing vote.
Shalom Y'all is a Portland Israeli/Mediterranean restaurant. The chat has carried the name continuously from 2021-03-26 → 2025-12-26, and the venue's principal in-chat function is as the Mediterranean fallback whenever Blutos is unavailable, unappealing, or simply not Evan's pick. The chat's preferred orthography is Shalom Y'all with the apostrophe; Shalom yall without the apostrophe also occurs and is treated as equivalent.
First mention
The earliest mention is by Daniel Miller on 2021-03-26, in the form of a one-word proposal:
"Shalom y'all?" — Daniel Miller, 2021-03-26
The form has not been improved upon. Bare-word interrogative Shalom y'all? is the chat's preferred and stable form for proposing the venue.
The 2023 hoen-rotation entry
The chat's first sustained Shalom Y'all sequence is 2023-05-12, in which Evan Bbbender frames the venue as the Blutos alternative:
"Hmm I could do shalom y'all but never tried blutos" — Evan Bbbender, 2023-05-12 "Shalom y'all is delicious" — Daniel Miller, 2023-05-12 "Dan can we try blutos or are you gonna force shalom y'all" — Evan Bbbender, 2023-05-12
The exchange establishes the canonical Daniel-Evan stalemate: Daniel forcing Shalom Y'all, Evan deflecting toward Blutos. Variations of this exchange recur in essentially every subsequent Mediterranean-day in the corpus.
"Shalom y'all at moon"
A confusing late-thread artifact is Evan Bbbender's 2023-06-16 post:
"Shalom y'all at moon" — Evan Bbbender, 2023-06-16
The construction at moon — referring presumably to a different venue called Moon — has not been clarified in the corpus. The encyclopedia preserves the formulation for the historical record without further interpretation.
Brian's standard rotation
By 2025, Brian Ambuel includes Shalom Y'all in his standard four-option indecisive-day slate (see Grand Fir):
"I'm feeling indecisive so I'll throw out some options: kachka, grand fir, foxtrot or shalom yall" — Brian Ambuel, 2025-06-05
This is the corpus's only documented case of Shalom Y'all being explicitly enumerated alongside the chat's other principal Mediterranean / late-period contenders, and is the encyclopedia's standard reference for the venue's late-period role.
Late-corpus
Evan Bbbender continues to propose the venue intermittently:
"Probably something like shalom yall or kachka" — Evan Bbbender, 2025-08-28
"Or Shalom Y'all" — Matt, 2025-12-26
The latter — Matt's holiday-season fallback — is the corpus's most recent attestation.