{"id":212904,"date":"2026-04-28T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212904\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:16:09","slug":"jade-eatery-lounge-closes-in-port-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212904\/","title":{"rendered":"Jade Eatery &#038; Lounge closes in Port Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s three strikes for 1029 Port Washington Blvd. Jade Eatery &amp; Lounge, the <a class=\"nd-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/lifestyle\/restaurants\/jade-eatery-and-lounge-asian-fusion-o5w89xmf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asian-fusion eatery that opened there last May<\/a>, has closed. Owner Arun Kumar, who also operates the 2-year-old Jade in Hicksville, said that it &#8220;was much more difficult to get staff&#8221; to make the trip to Port Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant identified as &#8220;modern Asian fusion,&#8221; but that didn\u2019t convey the breadth of the menu. Globe-trotting through Japan, Thailand, China and India, it was apparently too broad to be printed and lived on a tablet that customers swiped through. There was also a popular (but, apparently, not popular enough) happy hour.<\/p>\n<p>Jade is in good company: Neither <a class=\"nd-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/lifestyle\/restaurants\/waterzooi-port-washington-pq2d98ly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Waterzooi (2020-23)<\/a> nor <a class=\"nd-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/lifestyle\/restaurants\/mesita-mexican-port-washington-j2m22kui\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mesita (2023-25)<\/a>\u00a0was able to make a go of the spot at the corner of Port Washington Boulevard and Main Street that had been a Wells Fargo Bank and, before that, a dry cleaner. Both were owned by longstanding hospitality companies that operate successful locations elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The property\u2019s configuration may be a problem: The main entrance is in the back and all passers- and drivers-by can see from the road is a sign and non-working doors covered with more signage. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tErica Marcus, a passionate but skeptical omnivore, has been reporting and opining on the Long Island food scene since 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s three strikes for 1029 Port Washington Blvd. Jade Eatery &amp; Lounge, the Asian-fusion eatery that opened there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8695,8696,9,11,10,49,51,50,821],"class_list":["post-212904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-feedme","tag-fmclose","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}