Restaurant Row Keeps Getting Smaller: Kallaloo to Close January 29

Nancy Leson/Seattle Times (RVP news partner):

Roy’s BBQ isn’t the only Columbia City restaurant readying to call it a day. Kallaloo, serving Caribbean Creole cuisine since 2006, will close after service January 29.

“We had a five-year plan,” says Gail Williams, who was raised in Trinidad and Tobago and runs this mom ‘n pop shop with her husband, chef Kal Gellein. That plan included finding more time for themselves after five years of hard work. Their view: “If we couldn’t step back, we’d either get out of it or scale down.” Now, with their lease up — and the economy down — getting out became the right move.

Never been? Well, there’s no time like the present to stop in for some St. Lucia-stuffed plantains, Guyanese Pepper Pot and Barbados oven-fried chicken (menu and hours listed here). Read more.

Kallaloo is located at 3820 South Ferdinand Street in Columbia City. Photo/do communications

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