[It's a normal Joe place that you feel comfortable, and there's great food. Blue cheese mushrooms, please! I've been coming here for 30-plus years, watching Kat grow up here.]
[If I would have known that this restaurant was gonna open, I would have moved here. Ushikawa gave up. Kat and her partner started this in 2005. FIERI: Then for a decade, Kat and John built their Mexican food cred.]
[I've been coming here for 30-plus years, watching Kat grow up here. FRIERI: Working for her mother, Nora Tygum, who started the joint back in '82, now Kat's picking up where mother left off.]