The company had just opened a restaurant.
We just opened the restaurant last week.
The pockets of Jerome the Libyan fuel dealer, a fixture, are fuller; Mama Nigeria has just opened her restaurant.
"We had just opened our restaurant in Seal Beach and we didn't even have to do any advertising," said Mike Burdick, owner of the Abbey.
The property also just opened a restaurant, Casa Parrón, in an old adobe house, open Tuesday to Sunday for lunch with a prix fixe menu and wine pairings, from 30,000 to 60,000 pesos, depending on the tier of vintages.
Mr. Friedman bounced up from his seat, shook a few wrinkles out of his suit and began talking to spectators with all the pride of a man who had just opened a restaurant.
Mr. Summers, 71, the owner of Martin Summers Fine Art, a gallery in London, and his wife, Annie, 61, a former interior designer and magazine editor, were visiting an old friend, the Argentine chef Francis Mallmann, who had just opened a restaurant and five-room hotel here in an abandoned general store.
I'll either drive home or meet the kids in New York for dinner; I have an apartment on the West Side, and they just opened a restaurant in the building, so I might go there for a glass of wine and a quick bite.... OR AT HOME If I go home and cook, what we have is based on what ingredients I find in the kitchen and what I have the energy for.
Gone are the days when you just opened your restaurant and waited for the customers to find you.
"Oh, I just opened a restaurant with my college roommate.
The Chairman, a San Francisco Chinese food truck, just opened a restaurant in downtown L.A.
