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Dine Different
Help Local Restaurants Survive COVID Article by Ben Munson We are now fully one year into the COVID pandemic and it has unquestionably changed how we work, play and come together. Few businesses have been as heavily impacted as the restaurant industry. According to the National Restaurant Association, mandated lockdowns and concerns about the safety of dining in public during the pandemic has resulted in 17% of all US restaurants closing. In communities across America, people...
March 2021
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The Smokey Griddle
Supporting local restaurants! Article by Leslie Pearce, Publisher | Photography by Gari Ann Kia If you have not ever been to Smokey Griddle for breakfast / brunch, add it to your TO DO list. Like many others who fell in love with Williamsburg, Carlos Segovia came to visit his brother Raul here from California and liked it so much he ended up staying. Working in various restaurants around town, he always dreamed of owning his own restaurant here because it is a beautiful place to live and raise...
March 2021
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Redefining Retro's Good Eats
Hotdogs and Hamburgers to Haute Cuisine Article by Leslie Pearce | Photography by Gari Ann Kia Meet Ihsan Korkmaz. Ihsan has been a part of the Williamsburg community since he moved here in 1995 to be closer to family. In the years that followed, he traveled and got a formal education in the culinary arts. In 2018 Ishan was unexpectedly presented the opportunity to purchase the famous Retro’s Good Eats restaurant downtown on Prince George Street. Tourism’s precipitous drop in 2020 presented...
March 2021
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