Yesterday was the final day for Lawrence's seven-year-old Mirth Cafe - at the restaurant's original location (745 New Hampshire). The popular breakfast-and-lunch venue (which The Pitch reviewed in 2010) is scheduled to open next week, according to several of Mirth's employees working yesterday, a couple of blocks away.
The Omaha-based Pepperjax Grill moved to a location at 919 Massachusetts earlier this year. Three months ago, the owners of the Mirth Cafe opened a second location of the restaurant, called Mirth Too, in Tonganoxie.
Another Lawrence restaurant that has changed locations has caused some confusion among Fat City fans.
We have received several e-mails from readers asking if restaurateur Nancy Nguyen's the Orient - which serves both traditional Vietnamese cuisine and American soul food - had closed.
"It was too expensive, operating a fresh-seafood restaurant, serving sustainable seafood, in Lawrence," says Nancy Nguyen, who does a boom carryout business selling her Oh Boy fried chicken - a gluten-free deep-fried bird - and Southern-style side dishes such as collard greens and macaroni and cheese.
