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  • Chef George Yiu flips American-Chinese classics on their heads at Yao's
    by Michael Murphy on September 18, 2024 at 5:00 am

    Unhyphenated America is an unappetizing proposition. It tastes like tighty whities and golf. Hyphenated America is where flavor lives — a free-ballin' funhouse of spicy and soulful.

  • Maitland mainstay Kappy's Subs announces new lease deal after wave of public support
    by Matthew Moyer on September 17, 2024 at 6:30 pm

    Flying in the face of waves of grim news about local restaurant closings, popular local eatery Kappy's Subs announced they will be able to stay open after all. The longtime Maitland sandwich shop — open since 1967 — originally announced their abrupt closure last week, after the property owner (Bolen Properties) would not commit to a new lease deal with Kappy's. The sub shop's last day in business was supposed to have been Saturday, Sept. 14.

  • Hawkers Asian Street Food files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
    by Faiyaz Kara on September 16, 2024 at 8:25 pm

    Hawkers Asian Street Food kickstarted a movement of a new generation of Asian and pan-Asian restaurants when it opened in Mills 50 way back in 2011. The cacophonous and bustling restaurant, modeled after the hawker stalls in Malaysia and Singapore, was on the vanguard of a movement that's seen immigrant-run Asian restaurants carry our restaurant scene forward and upward and sideward. But today, the seminal Mills 50 restaurant announced it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in order to "maintain operational control of the Company and preserve the integrity of its brand as to protect from an overreaching lender."

  • Pom Pom's to close after nearly 20 years in Orlando's Milk District
    by Chloe Greenberg on September 16, 2024 at 3:30 pm

    Longstanding sandwich spot Pom Pom's Teahouse & Sandwicheria will close its Milk District outpost next month, after nearly 20 years of business. Owner Pom Moongauklang announced in a Monday morning social media post the restaurant will close its doors by Friday, Oct. 4. "Over the past 20 years, I have been involved in the Orlando culinary scene and created multiple concepts (Pom Pom's, Tako Cheena, Mr. Sister's menu, and pop-ups inside FinnHenry's and Savoy).

  • Winter Park eatery Farm + Haus closes on Park Avenue
    by Lucy Dillon on September 13, 2024 at 8:00 pm

    Brittany Walsh Lyne and Patrick Lyne, the duo behind the popular Winter Park eatery Farm + Haus, announced the restaurant’s closure on social media last week, after less than two years in business. “The past year and a half has been the most challenging time that we have faced both personally and professionally — and we’re not alone,” the couple wrote in the post. “Make no mistake, it is a tough time for small business owners everywhere.”

  • SIX restaurant closings announced this week: Farm + Haus, Ethos Vegan Kitchen, Valkyrie Doughnuts, Kappy's Subs, Bandbox and Chuck Lager Legendary Kitchen
    by Faiyaz Kara on September 12, 2024 at 1:45 pm

    OPENINGS & CLOSINGS: We'll open with some notable closings: Farm & Haus, the Winter Park breakfast and lunch spot that started 10 years ago as a meal delivery service and stall inside East End Market, has shuttered its South Park Avenue restaurant for good. They closed their EEM stall in January 2024 ...

  • The Hammered Lamb plans fundraiser to combat threat of closure
    by Lucy Dillon on September 11, 2024 at 7:02 pm

    The Hammered Lamb owner Jason Lambert announced on social media this week the Ivanhoe Village business is holding an all-day fundraiser Sept. 14 to combat the looming threat of permanent closure. "Save the Lamb" fundraiser comes about a week after the business announced in a Sept. 3 Facebook post it will be closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, their two slowest days of the week, due to business struggles. Ongoing construction in Ivanhoe Village has affected the eatery, and many of its fellow small businesses in the area, the team wrote in the post.

 


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