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Mango Grove has announced that its new location will be on Stanford Road. Mango Grove and its sister restaurant Mirchi Wok will be re-built at 8865 Stanford Blvd., just a few minutes from the restaurants' original Columbia location. The announcement was made on Mango Grove's Facebook page . Mango Grove, a vegetarian mainstay in Columbia, known best for its dhosa, a kind of Indian crepe, closed in late August after 15 years to make way for new development. It was not immediately clear when the new restaurants(s)

The owners of Kooper's Tavern, Katie and Patrick Russell, will open a Baltimore County location in Lutherville's Round Wood Shopping Center. The new location will be called Kooper's North. A new food truck, Woody's Taco Island, is also on its way. The Lutherville location was formerly the home of Roddy Domacasse's Restaurant Sabor, which closed suddenly last summer. The Russells will operate Kooper's North in a partnership with Miles Perman, according to Patrick Russell, who said that he hopes to have the new location open by Aug. 21. In addition to Kooper's Tavern, the Russells own the Thames Street properties Slainte Irish Pub and Woody's Rum Bar and Celie's Waterfront Inn . They also own Kooper's Chowhound Burger Wagon, the first truck in Baltimore's food-truck fleet.

Mango Grove will open its new Columbia location on Stanford Road on Valentine's Day. The news of the opening was posted late, late Sunday night on the restaurant's Facebook page. The keeper of the How Chow blog, who has been assiduously following the journey of Mango Grove to its new location, posted the news early Monday morning. Mango Grove is calling this a soft-opening, with a limited menu. A vegetarian mainstay in Columbia known best for its dhosa , a kind of Indian crepe, Mango Grove closed its original location in  August 2011 after 15 years to make way for new development.

After 15 years, Mango Grove shut its original Columbia location last August and reopened nearby on Valentine's Day. That's only six months — a quick turnaround in restaurant time — but it must have felt like much longer for fans of Mango Grove's terrific Indian cuisine. Vegetarians must have been especially desolate. For them, Mango Grove was a serene retreat, with an atmosphere just fancy enough to qualify as a date night. Just think: six months without those well-tempered vegetable curries and all that time without a single dosai.

After approving a design plan for an elementary school in the northeast region of Howard County, the Board of Education is moving forward with a site for the new school — just not the one previously discussed. The board unanimously selected a site along Ducketts Lane in Elkridge, less than two miles from the site initially proposed on Coca-Cola Drive in Hanover, at its meeting Tuesday, June 21. The site came recommended by Ken Roey, executive director of facilities, and Joel Gallihue, manager of school planning, and their staffs.

Watch for some changes at Grano on Chestnut Street, otherwise known as Big Grano. In a week, maybe two, Gino Troia will be unveiling a new addition to this larger, table-service version of the original (and still- running) storefront location a few blocks away in Hampden. The addition, to be called Emporio Grano , is an expansion into what was formerly an Indian clothing store. It will be partly a salumeria, where guests will be able to grab up good meats and cheeses, and partly a showcase for the Italian pastries of Simone Martini, one of Troia's two longest-serving chefs, along with Paolo Santinani.

Since January, Baltimore Fashion Week founder Sharan Nixon has been operating under the assumption that she would hold her four-day event in the tony neighborhood of Harbor East. Nixon announced Wednesday that after months of meetings and dozens of e-mails with H&S Properties Development Corp., the group responsible for developing the Harbor East area, she was not able to secure a lease with them and is therefore in talks with Baltimore City officials to move the event to another location.

Aida Bistro & Wine Bar closed its original location of six years on Thanksgiving Eve. One week later, on Dec. 2, Mary and Joe Barbera reopened a new Aida across the way in Columbia Gateway office park. The new location gives the Barberas a few things they always wanted but were never able to have in their loyally followed and well reviewed Italian restaurant. An expanded kitchen allows them the extra space they always wanted to add a lunch operation. Aida had always been a dinner-only location, and Joe Barbera knew he was losing out on the potential business from his business park neighbors.

After 15 years, Mango Grove shut its original Columbia location last August and reopened nearby on Valentine's Day. That's only six months — a quick turnaround in restaurant time — but it must have felt like much longer for fans of Mango Grove's terrific Indian cuisine. Vegetarians must have been especially desolate. For them, Mango Grove was a serene retreat, with an atmosphere just fancy enough to qualify as a date night. Just think: six months without those well-tempered vegetable curries and all that time without a single dosai.

Mamma Lucia's Restaurant will open a new location in Annapolis at the Harbour Shopping Center on Route 2.The restaurant, located in the new complex that contains a multiscreen movie theater, several restaurants and a variety of stores, will feature the same menu items asthe other location in Annapolis. It will donate a portion of its profits to the Annapolis Unit of the American Cancer Society's local education programs and services for cancer patients, including research.The proceeds for the first year will be about $10,000, restaurantowners predicted.

Hey, Potbelly fans, that new Potbelly Sandwich Shop in Towson is opening on Tuesday, May 1. This is the first Potbelly in Towson and the seventh in the Baltimore area for the Chicago-based franchise, which began back in 1977 in a small antique store that offered homemade sandwiches to its customers. The Towson Potbelly is located on 8600 La Salle Road in the Maryland Executive Park, where the Gino's Burgers & Chicken is. The new Potbelly will be open Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The shop will offer delivery Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the coming weeks.

In the more than 45 years since the Prime Rib opened, precious little has changed at the iconic midtown restaurant. Walking in is like stepping into a bygone era: Well-dressed diners carve into steaks the size of dinner plates while waiters in suits top off their wine glasses. The walls are black with gold trim; on them hang paintings, posters and framed covers of Vogue from the early 1930s. And who could miss that swinging '60s leopard print carpet? The Prime Rib has been around long enough to see its style fall in and out of fashion.

Housewarming alert: This is the Real Estate Wonk blog's new home, a redesigned spot that is more fully integrated into the Baltimore Sun's main site. Good news: You can find blog posts I write from now on in the Sun's main search box, something that wasn't possible before. Bad news: Previous posts haven't moved. So we're keeping the old home for the time being at least, an archive of sorts where you can find Wonk topics stretching back to 2007. Here's that link: weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/realestate/blog . You can get to the new location here by typing baltimoresun.com/realestatewonk -- easy peasy.

The Towson Social Security office will move on March 6 to 28 Allegheny Ave., the Social Security Administration said Tuesday. The current location, 110 West Road, will close at 3 p.m. March 2. No service will be available on Monday, March 5. Office hours at the new location, which officials said is more convenient to public transportation, will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, and free parking is available on the fifth floor...

Mango Grove will open its new Columbia location on Stanford Road on Valentine's Day. The news of the opening was posted late, late Sunday night on the restaurant's Facebook page. The keeper of the How Chow blog, who has been assiduously following the journey of Mango Grove to its new location, posted the news early Monday morning. Mango Grove is calling this a soft-opening, with a limited menu. A vegetarian mainstay in Columbia known best for its dhosa , a kind of Indian crepe, Mango Grove closed its original location in  August 2011 after 15 years to make way for new development.

You could have knocked someone over with a galaktoboureko. That's how surprising the news was in Greektown that Ikaros , which the Kohilas family has operated in the Eastern Avenue location since 1969, will be moving — a half a block up Eastern Avenue. That's Baltimore for you. The move could happen as soon as March 1, says Xenophon Kohilas, who co-owns the restaurant with his brother, Theodosis. The new location is on the same side of Eastern Avenue, just across Ponca Street, in a big corner building where Aztec de Oro was the last in a succession of restaurants to open and close.

Faced with dwindling crowds and gate receipts for his dinner-fight cards at La Fontaine Bleu, local fight promoter and matchmaker Josh Hall will test a new boxing venue tomorrow night when he stages a six-bout card at Michael's on Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie.Baltimore junior welterweight Eddie Van Kirk (23-7-1) will meet Henry Hughes (13-3-1) of Cleveland in the eight-round main event.For his last three promotions at La Fontaine Bleu in July, August and October, Hall attracted paid crowds of 201, 530 and 418 in a catering hall that can hold 800.Hall believes the economic slump is partly to blame, but feels a bigger factor was the canceled shows at La Fontaine Bleu and money owed to customers by his predecessor, Max Kisner, whom he served as matchmaker.

Ikaros, which the Kohilas family has operated in the same Greektown location since 1969, will be moving -- one half block up Eastern Avenue. The move could happen as soon as March 1, according to Xenophon Kohilas, who co-owns the restaurant with his brother. The new location is on the same side of Eastern Avenue, just across Ponca Street, in a big corner building where Aztec de Oro was the last in a succession of restaurants to open and close. With its broader dimensions and higher ceilings, the new location will allow Ikaros to do things it never could in the cozy, old space: The new Ikaros will have a brick oven, a rotisserie spit and a display of live seafood in the dining room.

When it comes to pinball, Washington's loss is Baltimore's gain. The National Pinball Museum, unexpectedly and unceremoniously kicked out of its Georgetown location last summer, opens Jan. 14 next to Power Plant Live. Soon, in addition to checking out Port Discovery , eating a good meal and listening to some live rock 'n' roll, downtown visitors will be able to exercise their wrists and develop the fine art of keeping a metal ball in play without tilting the machine. In a city where John Waters is king and the delightfully quirky American Visionary Art Museum is one of the most vibrant tourist attractions, a museum devoted to pinball should be right at home.