Rice Paper, one of the first Vietnamese restaurants to locate outside the Mills50 neighborhood, and whose innovative cuisine earned it my Foodie Award, has closed. While the majority of Vietnamese restaurants were — and still are — in the area of  Mills Avenue and Colonial Drive (U.S. Highway 50), Rice Paper chose the Bay Hill Plaza on Turkey Lake Road in the vicinity of Restaurant Row to open in 2004. The small cafe was also distinct in that it went beyond the usual offerings of pho and vermicelli-based dishes to offer more stylized and creative cuisine that had a gourmet flair but was still based in tradition.

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