I’ve been absent for a while, first physically, in Athens and Istanbul and points between (food and restaurant notes coming soon), and then mentally, as on my return I came down with what I assume was flu that knocked me on my rear end for 12 days. Yes, I had gotten the flu vaccine, but either it wasn’t geared to the strain I had or I got it too early in the season and its efficacy was muted. Anyway, there’s a lot to catch up on.
Let’s start with Quantum Leap Winery, which last week announced that it was essentially being kicked out of the Mills 50 facility it has called home since it opened 12 years ago. The building, about one block west of Mills Avenue and one block south of Virginia Drive, was sold last fall and the new owners intend to use it for their own business (plastics, I hear; shoutout to “The Graduate”).
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