I usually don't write about national chain restaurants because I'm too busy feasting at locally grown restaurants, but readers send me questions asking about their favorite chain restaurants opening in the South Sound region. Consider this an update on their behalf.
I usually don't write about national chain restaurants because I'm too busy feasting at locally grown restaurants, but readers send me questions asking about their favorite chain restaurants opening in the South Sound region. Consider this an update on their behalf.
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Next month, Tommy Bahama is opening a restaurant at its flagship store in Manhattan. Shoppers will be able to buy one of the chain’s tropical print shirts, then order the macadamia-nut encrusted snapper.
For years, a sign just off Canyon Road in Puyallup advertised the future home of El Toro, a chain of Mexican restaurants operating in the South Sound since 1979. Years passed, there was no activity, no construction at the site. Just that weathered sign. Ruben Arias Jr. whose father Ruben Arias Sr. founded the chain, said he’s received so many emails and calls about that sign, he can’t respond to them all. They ask the same thing - are you ever going to open?
In my inbox from the University of Washington Tacoma this morning is an announcement downtown eaters will love to read - three new restaurants are coming to the campus. I've already reported on one - Savor Creperie, which has delayed its opening from January to March. Here's even better news than a much needed creperie in that neighborhood - downtown diners will be getting another pho restaurant - and it's a local restaurant chain diners will recognize.
The Puyallup area is home to duplicate chain restaurants large and small. Occasionally a bright spot appears in the form of a dining gem. Consider Puyallup River Alehouse such a development. With 24 taps featuring a wide range of craft beer, it's a much-needed destination for East Pierce County.
When the Anthony’s Restaurants chain bought Tacoma’s Harbor Lights restaurant on Ruston Way 13 years ago, it faced the challenge of keeping alive Harbor Lights’ long legacy of fine dining and signature food items under a new ownership.
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