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Lawrence Restaurant Week to feature specials from dozens of local restaurants, bars
The local hospitality industry is gearing up a slew of special menu items for this year’s Lawrence Restaurant Week, a 10-day culinary affair.
Lawrence Restaurant Week to feature specials from dozens of local restaurants, bars
The local hospitality industry is gearing up a slew of special menu items for this year’s Lawrence Restaurant Week, a 10-day culinary affair.
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Maya Hodison/Lawrence Times
Multiple Lawrence stores and restaurants announce closings
Four Lawrence businesses — two chain restaurants, an office supply store and a local Lawrence furniture store — have recently announced that they’re closing.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Food entrepreneurs in Douglas County develop from small business bootcamp; statewide version coming up
Local entrepreneurs said a virtual course that Douglas County offered helped grow their mobile food businesses, and a statewide version begins this fall.
Maya Hodison/Lawrence Times
KC ice cream shop franchise coming to west Lawrence
A Lawrence business owner plans to open a franchise of Kansas City-based ice cream shop Betty Rae’s this fall in west Lawrence.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Fresh Cut Smoothies to open in downtown Lawrence with community recipes, concoctions for all palates
Daniel Luckey has worked in restaurants all over the downtown strip. Now, he’s channeling his decades of service industry experience into opening a grab-and-go-style smoothie and juice shop in the 800 block of Mass.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Boba & Beyond opens at Lawrence’s Central Station
Amrutha Ravikumar has opened her second Boba & Beyond location. The cafe is the sole vendor at Lawrence Transit’s Central Station.
Lane Rozin/Lawrence Times
Free summer meals in Lawrence available for all kids
Kids can eat a free lunch three days a week through the month of June, and families can pick up weekly meal kits to prepare and plan ahead through June and July.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
Just Food celebrates opening of expanded community garden space
Lawrence community members gathered Wednesday to celebrate a new “enhanced” garden space at Just Food. It includes a tea garden with native plants, accessible raised beds, an outdoor classroom and more.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Q39 barbecue restaurant wins approval for tax breaks to revive downtown Lawrence building
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday approved tax incentives to help Q39, a Kansas City-based barbecue restaurant, rehabilitate a long-dormant downtown building.
Lane Rozin/Lawrence Times
9th Street Mexican Tacos takes place of short-lived cafe in Lawrence
Burrito King co-owners Angelina and Max Cruz are making a fresh start with their nearby Ninth Street location, reopening it as a sit-down taco restaurant called 9th Street Mexican Tacos.
Maya Hodison/Lawrence Times
French-inspired restaurant and bar set to open soon in East Lawrence
Sable Kitchen & Bar, Jeffrey Ward’s new French-inspired restaurant in East Lawrence serving fresh cuisine, traditional wines and rustic ambience, is set to open soon.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Haskell alum opens Wadulisi’s Indigenous Food to preserve Native culture through education
As the founder of Wadulisi’s Indigenous Foods, Haskell alum Melissa Garrett is preserving Native culture through food, education and storytelling.
Resource fair aims to address challenges of rural life in Douglas County
The upcoming Rural Living Resource Fair will seek to connect community members with experts and resources designed for rural living in Douglas County, including a range of local vendors.
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