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When Pizza 51 West announced that it was closing the Fairway location, the owners couldn’t say what would replace their eatery.

Now we know: Chocolatier Christopher Elbow plans to open a shop called Fairway Creamery that will include offerings similar to his Glace Artisan Ice Cream shop, plus other frozen treats (soft-serve ice cream and dipped cones) and “a long-standing hobby of mine” — doughnuts, the Shawnee Mission Post reports. Elbow hopes to open the shop by May.

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Publix Super Markets Inc.'s latest bid to turn shoppers into chefs — and ideally pique their interest in buying more ingredients along the way — is a series of free online cooking classes that will debut on YouTube.

The Florida-based grocer says its Aprons Cooking School program has three episodes teed up. The first, which will teach shoppers how to build three separate meals from one of its deli oven-roasted chickens, goes live at 6 p.m. on Jan. 12. Viewers will be able to participate in…

During lunchtime in San Francisco’s Financial District, Bamboo Asia bustles with customers in search of a quick bite. Like many of the workers shuffling through its lines, the fast casual joint sees itself as tech-savvy — even snagging an investment from Caviar’s founding team — though no robots are rolling about, and there are still cashiers.

The brightly decorated pan-Asian food market houses three counters, offering up Japanese, Vietnamese and Indian fast-casual options with ingredients…

After a nearly 25-year gap, Hawaii avocados are being shipped to the Mainland, a new development that some experts say could lead to a boom for the local industry.

Hawaii farmers first started shipping avocados to the Mainland in 1989, but the program was discontinued two years later following concerns over the potential transportation of fruit flies to the U.S. Mainland, according to West Hawaii Today.

Mike Scharf, officer in charge for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in West Hawaii, told…

When Arlington’s A-Town Bar and Grill said it would close for good in early December, owner Mike Cordero told fans of the college-y watering hole to stay tuned for a new concept in the new year.

That concept will be Bronson, a beer hall and German restaurant from Cordero and partners Nick Cordero — Mike’s son — and Scott Parker. A-Town officially served its last drinks on New Year’s Eve and the owners are starting renovations this week.

Bronson will fill the 6,000-square-foot space…

After a few years getting to know the Gulch neighborhood, Sarah Gavigan thinks she knows what the people want: Otaku, and lots of it.

That's the name of Gavigan's 3-year-old Gulch restaurant, Otaku Ramen, housed at 1104 Division St. Over the next week and a half, Gavigan and her team are transforming a restaurant space just a block or so over, at 505 12th Ave. S., into Bar Otaku: A Japanese Izakaya. The new concept, set to open Jan. 12, is replacing Little Octopus, another Gavigan restaurant that…

DERMAdoctor LLC, a Kansas City-based skin care company, no longer is pursuing an IPO, CEO Dr. Jeff Kunin told the Kansas City Business Journal.

Kunin cited “rocky” market conditions and a reduced need for capital as reasons to pull the plug on the IPO. The company initially decided to go public because it wanted the extra capital to accelerate growth.

The company filed to go public with the Securities and Exchange Commission in May, seeking an initial public offering of $13.2 million…