Category: Restaurant

Car Crashes Into a New Hampshire Restaurant and Injures Several Customers, Fire Department Says

LACONIA, N.H.—A car crashed into a busy restaurant and injured several patrons in a lakeside town in New Hampshire Sunday afternoon, emergency officials said. The vehicle struck the Looney Bin Bar & Grill a little after 12:40 p.m. Firefighters who arrived on the scene found the car inside the restaurant, the Laconia Fire Department said…


Peru Restaurant Voted Best in the World

A restaurant in Lima, Peru has been named the best restaurant in the world by more than 1,000 restaurant industry experts, including food writers and chefs, in this year’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants rankings. Central, located in Lima’s Barranco District, was opened in 2008 by married chefs Virgilio Martínez and Pia León who had a “vision to create…


VIDEO: Opera Singer Surprises Customers at a Restaurant With His Impromptu Performance

A German-born opera singer is spreading his love for classical music with the masses by bursting into song from his table to the surprise of all guests while dining in different restaurants with his manager. Ricardo Marinello, 34, was born and raised in Düsseldorf, Germany, by a Sicilian father and a German mother. He was…


Man and 12-Year-Old Boy Arrested After Fatal Shooting at Sonic Restaurant in Texas

KEENE, Texas—A 12-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man have been arrested on a murder warrant in the fatal shooting of a Sonic Drive-In employee in Texas, police said. Matthew Davis, 32, was shot and killed Saturday night as he fought with Angel Gomez, 20, in the parking lot of the restaurant in Keene, about 40…


2 People Die, 12 Hurt in Madrid Restaurant Blaze

MADRID—Two people died and 12 others were injured in a fire at a restaurant in the Spanish capital Madrid, emergency services said on Saturday. The blaze started late on Friday night at Burro Canaglia Bar&Resto, an Italian restaurant in the central Salamanca neighbourhood. One of the dead was a restaurant employee and the other was…


San Francisco Pizza Shop Fires Employee Who Refused to Serve Police Officers

SAN FRANCISCO—The restaurant Pizza Squared has fired an employee who would not serve San Francisco police officers. On Jan. 29, the employee refused to provide service to several officers. The next day, the San Francisco Police Officers Association (SFPOA) notified the restaurant owner of the incident. In a tweet posted on Jan. 30, Pizza Squared…


Homecoming King: Everything Has Prepared Chef Travis Swikard for This Moment

Crowning the open kitchen of Callie, in San Diego’s East Village, is a sheet of glowing, rust-colored steel that comes to a point in the center—like the bow of a ship, said chef-owner Travis Swikard. Working each evening service, “I stand right there, and it’s me at the helm of my ship coming home, bringing…


Restaurant Sign Topples in High Wind; 1 Dead, 2 Injured

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky.—A towering Denny’s Restaurant sign in central Kentucky fell on a car during high winds, killing a woman and injuring her husband and daughter. The sign partially crushed their car when it fell Thursday from a pole near the Denny’s parking lot off Interstate 65 in Elizabethtown. Lillian Curtis, 72, was in the back…


Police Say 22 Injured When SUV Crashes Into NYC Restaurant

NEW YORK—A hit-and-run driver rear-ended a sport utility vehicle and sent it crashing into a New York City restaurant, injuring 22 people, police said Tuesday. The crash happened at about 9 p.m. Monday in upper Manhattan, a police spokesperson said. A white Audi exited a gas station and struck the rear of a Toyota sport…


7 Dead in Turkish Restaurant Blast; Gas Canister Suspected

ISTANBUL—An explosion at a restaurant in western Turkey killed seven people on Friday, with one official saying a gas canister may have caused the blast. The governor of Aydin Province told Turkish broadcaster CNN Turk that five others were injured, with one of them in critical condition. Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said in a tweet…