11.   Blum had been planning to capitalize on the trendy night life on the Lower East Side by opening a restaurant that would face his courtyard on Houston Street.

12.   A year later, he brought his parents to the United States and they opened a restaurant called the Golden Pheasant in Torrance, Calif.

13.   After graduating from California State University, Northridge, he and a friend opened Valentino restaurant on a less-than-impressive stretch of Pico Boulevard.

14.   After returning to California, she opened a restaurant, Fans, but decided to close the eatery a few years after she became a mom.

15.   Boulud is opening a restaurant in what used to be the Mayfair Hotel.

16.   Burger King officials say the Israeli franchisee, Rikamor Ltd., deceived them when it sought and received approval to open a restaurant in Maale Adumim.

17.   But an older brother is getting a business degree, and they have the idea of eventually opening a restaurant.

18.   But only after a gauntlet of community board meetings could they open their restaurant, the Park.

19.   But since he opened the restaurant, Zalben has grown increasingly uncomfortable with his own expanding girth.

20.   But six months later when they decided to open a restaurant together, the relationship had barely gotten off the ground.