{"id":330426,"date":"2026-08-26T19:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330426\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:38:18","slug":"ev-grieve-mimi-chengs-wraps-up-12-years-in-the-east-village-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330426\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: Mimi Cheng&#8217;s wraps up 12 years in the East Village next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjN_AGQmTEyiVZwkzeB0p0GDFCAc8brEk037IuGtX9MVL1ZjhWTbMAXyUpdKwLfLSipG22ytsA78vEMxpsFxep9asxLHGGg8YKWoevgAS0I-y11a-66qphcoeJQxu0beUVSpYX-Ti6N-9CDrSghSml6G2tmGiU-t2_5gYwTet9bmzSEO20Moc0XSqtQ5rE\/s5712\/IMG_0766.HEIC\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0766.HEIC.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mimi Cheng&#8217;s is closing its East Village quick-serve restaurant after 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>Owners and sisters Marian and Hannah Cheng announced that Sept. 11 will be the last day at 179 Second Ave. between 11th and 12th streets, as the lease ends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This 12-year story was built by you, and we&#8217;re endlessly grateful,&#8221; they wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DccA20zCM_v\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsi=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The closure doesn&#8217;t mean the end of Mimi Cheng&#8217;s. The sisters said they are shifting their focus to growing the company&#8217;s frozen dumpling business, which is now sold in stores nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The dumplings aren&#8217;t going anywhere,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;They&#8217;re just getting a bigger home.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mimi Cheng&#8217;s is closing its East Village quick-serve restaurant after 12 years. Owners and sisters Marian and Hannah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-330426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330426","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=330426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}