29-01-2025
Christina Wan's to reopen in Fort Lauderdale under new name, owners: ‘We're still your Chinese grandmother'
Christina Wan's, a hallowed temple of modern Chinese in Fort Lauderdale's Victoria Park neighborhood, is coming back from the dead with a fresh name and new faces eager to preserve the family legacy.
Wan's — the restaurant's simplified new name — will be a reboot of the 28-year-old restaurant when it reopens in the same location sometime this spring, led by fourth-generation owners Alex Kuk (who runs next-door Temple Street Eatery) and Courtney Van Leeuwaarde, daughter of Christina Wan's namesake Christina Huynh.
The revival is a remarkable about-face for the longtime eatery, which closed Nov. 10 after Huynh, the restaurant's chic and sharp-eyed matriarch, announced her retirement along with her husband, chef and co-owner Jason Huynh.
So why revive the restaurant now? In truth, the extended Wan family had been regretting its closure for months, Kuk told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Tuesday.
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