The Buzz: Asian restaurant closes for repairs in Lewiston after driver plows into bathroom wall – Lewiston Sun Journal

This week in the Buzz, one restaurant’s temporarily closed after a car dove into the ladies’ bathroom, a delivery service is delivering no more but expect new things and what’s up with that broken plane in the corner of the airport?

So glad you asked.

First up, a car drove into C & J Buddha Asian Bistro on Sabattus in Lewiston smashing through the wall of the ladies’ bathroom about a month ago, according to Manager Mishelle Zhang.

It was rainy, about 7 at night.

“She said that she was wearing sandals and then the sandal slipped, so instead of pressing on the brake, she hit the gas, so she hit right through,” said Zhang. “I thought it was like thunder.”

No one was in the bathroom and no one was hurt. For the last few weeks as they’ve waited for a construction crew to arrive, female customers have just used the men’s room, too, she said.

Repairs finally started last week and the city health inspector on Friday said they’d need to close during renovation to avoid the possibility of contaminants due to outside exposure, according to Zhang.

“They took the whole wall down and they took the whole bathroom — the toilet, the sink, everything — they had to rip off the wall and then they had to rip off the tile so it’s starting from the beginning,” she said.

She’s hoping it’s a two-week job and closure and plans to keep customers posted on Facebook.

Three years and thousands of miles . . .

Great Falls Delivery Cafe in Lewiston announced its moving away from daily meal delivery to catering.

Owner Jessica Fortin said she took off this week and is kicking off the new format with a catered luncheon next week.

“We’ve always done catering, it just hasn’t been our main focus,” she said. “As much as I loved doing the lunches, it was such a blessing to be able to cook for everyone and make everyone healthy meals, I am only one lady, so it was a lot of work. After three years, I’m getting tired.”

She hopes to serve the local community and will have the new catering menu out next week.

“We’re still at the same location, we’re still putting out great food, it’s just we’re shifting our focus a little bit,” Fortin said.

One customer wrote on her Facebook page on Sunday, “I never had a lunch I didn’t love!”

Crushing news

Driven by the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in the last few weeks and been curious about the defunct plane in the corner?

Airport Director Rick Lanman said the plane is “operationally used up” and has been striped of parts that still have life left. One other plane is due to join it and then, later this summer, Elite Airways will have both crushed on-site and hauled away, similar to a car-crushing operation.

“The recycled parts then become a revenue stream,” he said.

Quick hits about business comings, goings and happenings. Have a Buzzable tip? Contact staff writer Kathryn Skelton at 207-689-2844 or [email protected]

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