Apparently the Pharmacy has found the cure for its ills.

Its closure on Aug. 18, first reported here and represented on its Facebook page as a one-week “kitchen remodeling,” was due to financial problems. As was said at the time, the Restaurant Row speakeasy-style bar and restaurant was in need of new investors. Those investors have been found and the restaurant will reopen Thursday, Aug. 31, according to owner Loren Falsone.

Teak Neighborhood Grill, whose neighborhood has been MetroWest since it opened in 2010, has opened a second location. Teak Neighborhood Grill — Maitland occupies the space in the Village at Lake Lily apartments that was formerly the home of RanGetsu Japanese restaurant. RanGetsu closed in March of 2016.

It’s here! Visit Orlando’s Magical Dining Month, which somehow defies all principles of the modern Gregorian calendar by running more than five weeks, begins Aug. 25 and runs through Oct. 1.

More than 100 restaurants are participating this year, up from 65 in 2016, including for the first time some well-known Disney restaurants. So even with 38 days, you’re not going to be able to visit them all. (No. NO. Stop arguing, you just can’t do it.) Also up this year is the cost, $35, two bucks more than 2016, and they’re not even paying Emeril Lagasse an endorsement fee this year.

So you’re going to have to do some research to narrow your decision. Here’s how I go about choosing which Magical Dining Month restaurants I’ll visit. 

Taste! Central Florida, the brand new benefit event now in its third decade, took place on Aug. 19 at the Orlando World Center Marriott. More than 3000 people attended to taste and sip the wares of dozens of restaurants and beverage purveyors. The proceeds are still being tallied, but it’s expected to have raised at least $300,000.