Wash West-ers may remember the Jin House, one of three casual restaurants that occupied the ground floor of the apartment building at 11th and Spruce Streets until the wee hours of Aug. 6, 2003. That's when a spectacular, six-alarm fire destroyed the building. (A half-dozen people were plucked from windows by firefighters; amazingly no one was seriously injured, but eight people, including two firefighters, sought treatment for smoke inhalation and other injuries at Jeff.)
I'm not sure where the other restaurants -- Islas or Where Else? -- relocated, but I can tell you that Tony Zheng is readying his Jin House for a mid-January opening at 1117 Locust St., next to More Than Just Ice Cream. Same low-priced BYO concept, he says.
Photo Tom Kelly IV / For The Inquirer