Vanessa Oliver of Regent Street Retail and Restaurant Solutions was telling the South Bayview Bulldog that 690-692 Mt. Pleasant (at Soudan) will be divided into two locations for restaurant use. Nothing has been finalized and the premises are for lease. Area residents will fondly remember the quality years that this location enjoyed in the early part of the century as Lai Toh Heen (inset) the superb Chinese cuisine restaurant. Lai Toh Heen was impacted as were many fine dining restaurants by the downturn in business after 2008. It closed in 2011. The good news is that its sister (and original business) Lai Wah Heen has been resurrected at the DoubleTree by Hilton (formerly Metropolitan) Hotel on Chestnut Street. When the hotel was renovated in 2014 it was not clear if Lai Wah Heen would return but it is back with what appears to its previous fine menu which includes some of the better Dim Sum to be had downtown..
