And it’s one bright spot in neighborhood activists’ ongoing fight against new development threatening small businesses and the availability of affordable housing.

It all seems like a fitting tribute to Santos, who spent much of his career successfully fighting against the intrusion of non-local businesses and gentrification in the Chinatown-International District. Best New Orleans restaurant 1 Commander's Palace (1403 Washington Ave., 50 ) 2 Clancy's (6100 Annunciation St. Dynasty Room, which won Eater Seattle’s 2018 Bar of the Year, is set to close by the end of July so the building can be torn down. Our community knows a lot about tradition, and we opened our restaurant to begin a new one. Since 1999, our restaurant has promised freshly made sushi in a well-managed space that feels like home. The current Four Seas Restaurant building still stands on the site and is home to Dynasty Room, a semi-permanent bar in the old restaurant’s lounge. For more than 20 years, Mikimoto has been the go-to spot for authentic Japanese cuisine in New Orleans. The opening is still a ways off, with Uncle Bob’s Place not set to be complete for another two years. Uncle Bob’s Place will have 126 affordable housing units and ground floor commercial space. Bourbon hosts karaoke events, retro pop dance parties, regular drag shows and show. The new building that will house Bush Garden-Uncle Bob’s Place-is named after him and owned by the nonprofit he started 50 years ago, Interim CDA. Find the best gay bars and gay-popular nightclubs in New Orleans. Bush Garden was a beloved haunt of Chinatown-International District activist and icon “Uncle” Bob Santos, who died in 2016. It’s also one of the Chinatown-International District’s oldest restaurants. Bush Garden was the first restaurant in the country to have a karaoke bar, and over the decades it became a Seattle institution. But here’s a welcome update: the Chinatown-International District Japanese restaurant Bush Garden, which is closing to make way for a new development, will be resurrected inside a building coming to the current Four Seas Restaurant and Bar site. It’s not every day that a Seattle redevelopment story comes with good news for neighborhood restaurants.

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