The popular Korean restaurant is moving from Cypress Tower, where it's been for 24 years, to the takeout-only Lombrano Food Hall.
Mimi Lee couldn’t sleep Thursday night even though the past two weeks had been very busy, with only she and her husband, Chang Lee, running Cypress Cafe, the restaurant they opened 24 years ago.
The restaurant owners received an eviction notice from H-E-B in May. The San Antonio-based grocer wanted to limit entry to the building to H-E-B employees only. Married 34 years, the Lees’ story began in their home country of South Korea where Lee said she was a “housewife” and learned to cook from her North Korean mother-in-law.
Lee steadily began adding traditional Korean dishes like bulgogi, bibimbap, fish dumplings and chicken gangjeong to the menu, then making and selling jars of kimchi. The couple also started a delivery service. John Peña used to eat at Cypress Cafe during his lunch break when he was a student intern at Opportunity Home San Antonio. “I didn’t know of the place … but my co-workers at the time put me on the Korean food trend,” Peña said.
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