Popular College Park restaurant Northwest Chinese Food will open a new restaurant at city hall next year.

Specializing in hard-t0-find dishes from Shanxi province, Northwest Chinese is a critic’s darling, regularly named as a top restaurant by Washingtonian magazine, The Washington Post, Bon Appétit and the Hyattsville Wire reader poll.

Owner Hua Wang told the Hyattsville Wire they will open a new eatery called Li Chun Cafe at the new city hall plaza at 7401 Baltimore Ave. next February in the space previously occupied by Taim Mediterranean.

The new restaurant will feature dishes from Wang’s hometown, Shenyang City in Northeast China, including handmade bing, a type of Chinese flatbread wrap, as well as traditional tea and tea snacks.

Meantime, Northwest Chinese will stay at its long-standing location in a strip mall at 7313 Baltimore Ave. for a while, but eventually it will have to move as it is going to be torn down to make way for a 93-unit apartment building called Terrapin House.

Northwest Chinese neighbor Pho Thom will also move to the Union on Knox apartment complex as a result of the new construction.

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