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We are planning a week of first bites next week – writing about restaurants that have opened within the last few weeks.
Last week, I ate at Sushi World, a sushi restaurant that opened on River Road in Puyallup last weekend that features a nearly all-maki sushi menu. Also, I visited Sumay, an upscale Indian restaurant that opened last week on Puyallup's South Hill. I also dined at Merende, the small bites Italian eatery that opened Dec. 11 in downtown Tacoma.
Want a nibble? For a preview of each of the first bites we'll publish next week, click "read more" for a first nibble of my first nibbles.
A question: What's opened since Dec. 1 that we should go sample for a first bite report? Your suggestions? Note: the restaurant must have opened since Dec. 1 to meet our "brand new" standard for first-bite reports. If it's new, but over a month old, we may do a Drop-In Dining report later, however.
Please comment away.
Thinh Nguyen, the owner of Kim Anh, shows off a Vietnamese Crepe at the restaurant. Joe Barrentine/The News Tribune
EDITOR’S NOTE: Drop-In Dining is a restaurant dining report where reporters drop in unannounced and sample the food, on TNT’s dime, then report what the scene and the food was like. Have a suggestion for a Drop-In Dining feature? E-mail us at tntdiner@thenewstribune.com.
Kim Anh Vietnamese Restaurant
WHERE: 1620 S. Mildred St., Tacoma; 253-460-7200
HOURS: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays (open only until 8 p.m. on Wednesdays), noon-8 p.m. Sundays.
DETAILS: Cash, credit cards and debit cards
PRICE RANGE: $
By Craig Sailor
craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com
When it comes to Asian restaurants, one can get weary of cookie-cutter Chinese, formulaic Thai and the teriyaki joint on every corner. So I often ask servers what sets their restaurant apart from the others. When I broached that question to a Kim Anh server, he told me he didn’t know. “We don’t link to them,” was his response. At first I took his reply for haughtiness but then realized that Kim Anh does things its way and is proud of that, thank you very much.
The scene: In the same strip of businesses that houses I Love Bento and across from Tacoma Community College, the brightly lit eatery has 11 tables that feature ready-to-pour pitchers of hot tea.
