Chef Thoa Nguyen opens first restaurant east of Seattle in Issaquah Highlands

  By mid-November, Eastside residents and visitors to The Grand Ridge Plaza – Issaquah Highlands will have a noteworthy contemporary dining option for affordable, healthy, authentic Pan Asian food and specialty cocktails, when Chinoise Sushi Bar & Asian Grill Issaquah Highlands opens. Chef Thoa Nguyen, a pioneer in West Coast Pan Asian cuisine, opened her…

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Oct. 22, 2013 Chinoise is Coming to the Issaquah Highlands

Oct. 22, 2013  eaterseattle.com Thoa Nguyen, the woman responsible for the Pan-Asian cafe Chinoise on upper Queen Anne, Thoa’s (where Aragona is going in), The Islander (which pre-dated Thoa’s) and Wabi-Sabi Sushi Bar in Columbia City is expanding to the eastside. By mid-November, Nguyen is planning to open another Chinoise in the Grand Ridge Plaza (next…

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NW Culinary Influencer Chef Thoa Nguyen demos for international chef contingent @ Art Institute of Seattle-School of Culinary Arts

Chef Thoa was invited to demonstrate interesting Pan Asian preparations for visiting chefs and research and development leaders with a US Potato Board Reverse Trade mission. The Seattle leg of the tour (Oct. 3 and 4) was be based at The Art Institute of Seattle School of Culinary Arts, attendees are from across Asia and Mexico who…

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