Japanese restaurant Umiya could be opening in a location previously haunted by a ghost kitchen and the pizza palace that never was.
Umiya Alexandria Inc. filed a permit to open a full service restaurant at 3006 Duke Street, offering Japanese sushi, seafood and grilled food.
The restaurant will have 338 seats with 17 ADA seats and 36 valet parking spaces available in the existing parking lot on 3030 Duke Street.
Longtime Alexandrians may remember the location as pizza spot Generous George’s, but for years after the restaurant closed in 2009 the spot was more recently known as the “opening soon” home of Yates Pizza Palace, a restaurant that never existed.
Jeffrey Yates Sr., owner of Yates Car Wash and purchaser of Table Talk, bought the property after Generous George’s closed and planned to open it as a pizza restaurant, but Yates died in 2018 and plans by his family to open the restaurant fell apart.
The space was later occupied by a food kitchen, which closed in 2023.
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