Also, a meadery and cookie store are closing, along with a skin-care store.
looking at the comings and goings of businesses in Southcentral Alaska. If you know of a business opening or closing in the area, send a note to reporter Alex DeMarban atLongtime restaurateur Kenny Lee said he’s always had his heart set on opening a Korean barbecue joint.
He hopes K-PUB becomes a destination on Anchorage’s east side, helping counterbalance big dining draws in downtown, Midtown and South Anchorage, he said. The idea is “approachable sophistication,” said Beardsley, who grew up working at restaurants her mother owned, like the former Mexican restaurants El Toro“You can come in and have the most sophisticated lobster tail and steak that you want,” she said. “Or you can have a bowl of chowder with some oyster crackers and you can wear your Xtratufs and your Carhartts and be at home, having good food in a nice place that’s not pretentious.
Paul and Maria Charalambous moved to Anchorage from Soldotna last fall to open this eatery in Spenard.Maria and Paul Charalambous are the owners of Sofia’s Restaurant at 3801 Lois Drive in Anchorage. His father, Mike, is retired from Froso’s. But he’s now cooking at Sofia’s to help out, Charalambous said.“We’ve been in the restaurant business like 40 years,” Charalambous said. “Everything is homemade. Our sandwich meat is fresh-sliced. We cook everything to order. It’s not precooked.”
The chicken tikka masala is a customer favorite, along with goat or chicken vindaloo or curry, he said. So are the Vietnamese soups such as ox-tail pho.The couple, both 28, are from nearby towns in Oaxaca. They moved separately to Alaska several years ago to be with family, and met through mutual friends.
The restaurant is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. It stays open one extra hour for delivery, until 11 p.m.. It’s on the north side of the business center at Old Seward Highway and Scooter Avenue, at 9191 Old Seward Highway, Unit 1.Longtime franchisee Chris French said it’s a “bittersweet” end.He became the franchisee at 23, when the existing owners saw his commitment to the store and generously agreed to sell their rights.
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