Teak, which was a long-time favorite Thai restaurant, is re-opening. Or a new version of it is opening. Instead of Mount Adams, the new Teak will be on Race Street in Over-the-Rhine, across from the entrance to Washington Park.

It's being opened by Chanaka Delanerolle, who owned Teak from 2003 to 2017. He hopes to open in mid-July.

There will be a continuity with the former restaurant through the recipes and the people cooking them. "Out of the six people who held the main positions in the kitchen, four are coming back," said Delanerolle. "That includes the chef, the assistant chef and the sushi chef. I'm lucky, they say they want to work for me."

But unlike the full-menu, sprawling Mount Adams Teak, this will have a smaller space at 2,100 square feet and a more focused menu. The building is owned by Urban Sites.

Delanerolle, a native of Sri Lanka, was an accountant when he bought the Mount Adams Fish House and was launched into the restaurant business. He went on to own several other restaurants, including Teak and The Celestial in Mount Adams, and Apsara in Blue Ash. They are all now closed.

Teak originally opened in 1995, at a time when there were not a lot of Thai restaurants in Cincinnati.

Though Over-the-Rhine has many kinds of restaurants, there's been no Thai restaurant on the restaurant row of Vine Street, on Main or Walnut, and not a lot of Asian in general.

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