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Restaurant

Seafood restaurants dropping anchor in Willow Lawn and Forest Hill

3 weeks ago James Brave

A King Crab Juicy Seafood restaurant is heading to Willow Lawn. (Mike Platania photos)

Two New York-based restaurant chains focused on seafood are staking out new homes in Richmond.

King Crab Juicy Seafood is preparing to open a location at Willow Lawn, while Hook & Reel is getting ready to set up shop in Forest Hill.

The space at 1601 Willow Lawn Drive, Suite 800, was formerly home to Travinia Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar.

Based in Rochester, King Crab is leasing a 7,000-square-foot space at 1601 Willow Lawn Drive, Suite 800, which has been vacant since 2019

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Food News

Atlanta creates the nation’s largest free food forest with hopes of addressing food insecurity

2 months ago James Brave

But when the townhouses never came to fruition and with the lot remaining in foreclosure, Atlanta’s Conservation Fund bought it in 2016 to develop an unexpected project: the nation’s largest free food forest.

Thanks to a US Forest Service grant and a partnership between the city of Atlanta, the Conservation Fund, and Trees Atlanta, you’ll find 7.1 acres of land ripe with 2,500 pesticide-free edible and medicinal plants only 10 minutes from Atlanta’s airport, the world’s busiest airport before the pandemic struck.

The forest is in the Browns Mill neighborhood of southeast Atlanta, where the closest grocery store is … Read More