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Popular Tri-Cities restaurant is closing after 40 years

By Elizabeth W. Jernigan 3 days ago

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Patrons have lunch at China Cafe in Kennewick. The well-liked Chinese food establishment is closing after 40 years.


Jennifer King

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Kennewick, WA

After 40 years of serving up General Tso’s chicken and Mongolian beef to Tri-Cities residents, China Cafe is shutting its doors.

The last day for the Kennewick restaurant at the Highlands Shopping Center at Highway 395 and West Clearwater Avenue will be Nov. 30.

The building, originally constructed for a Pizza Hut, has been sold to the owners of Graze, a popular sandwich and salad shop. They plan to open their third Tri-Cities restaurant there.

Ming Tam,

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This beloved Northern California restaurant has a controversial name. Does it matter?

By Elizabeth W. Jernigan 5 days ago

When I first saw its name, I laughed. In California, in the year 2021, when colleges are being renamed, statues righteously taken down and Disneyland reimagined in the furtherance of anti-racism and inclusion, could there really be a beloved Bay Area institution called “Al the Wop’s”?

Staring at it on an online map of the Sacramento River Delta, I zoomed in on Locke, Calif., population “between 70 and 80 people.” Something about its location — on the dry side of a levee, amid a tangle of root-like tributaries, surrounded by towns I’d somehow never heard of — seemed mysterious. I … Read More

Wusong Road, Chinese American Restaurant and Tiki Bar, Slated for Late Fall Harvard Square Debut | News

By Elizabeth W. Jernigan 3 weeks ago

Harvard Square will soon welcome Wusong Road, a newly established Chinese American restaurant and tiki bar headed by chef Jason Doo and Thomas Brush, the owner of Felipe’s Taqueria.

Wusong Road is aiming for a “late fall” opening on 112 Mt. Auburn St., the historic building where French restaurant Les Sablons used to be, Doo said in an interview. The new restaurant is located near Flour Bakery and the Harvard Square Hotel.

Doo said the restaurant has been in the works for a long time. He added that though he and his business partners formulated the business idea before the

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The 10 best restaurant dishes in the D.C. area, according to Tom Sietsema

By Elizabeth W. Jernigan 3 weeks ago

Lots of luscious things passed my lips in the course of dining around the region for my 22nd annual fall restaurant guide. These 10 dishes are the ones I can’t stop thinking about. Let the ordering begin.

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Mushroom soup

A diner’s first taste of Imperfecto in the West End is a splendid amuse-bouche: mushroom soup that gets its texture and depth from a host of ingredients — braised pureed leeks, cauliflower, guajillo pepper, dried porcinis, allspice, cream — and arrives in a

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