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Caramelized onions, almonds, Parmesan cheese, fresh basil and fresh tomatoes tossed in balsamic vinaigrette piled on toasted garlic bread.
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Fresh salmon with a sesame seed with a sesame seed crunch, topped with an Asian glaze and served with our Yukon gold mashed potatoes and a dinner salad.
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Clouds of light marscapone cream on a coffee & Kahlua soaked sponge cake. Dusted with Callebaut chocolate.
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Rush Street Neighborhood Grill opened June, 24, 1980 as "The Chicago Dough Company." It was the third Chicago Dough Company opened by Chicago natives Mike Feliu and Mike Rose. The first two locations are in Richton Park, Illinois (1976) and Bourbonnais, Illinois (1977). These were operated as traditional "Chicago Style" pizza and beer establishments. In December 1989 the Kingsport location went through a major physcial and menu renovation and evolved into Rush Street Neighborhood Grill.
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When Mike Feliu runs, he doesn't run sprints; he doesn't even run a mile or two and call it a day. By avocation, he is a marathon runner.
The same can be said for his vocation. In the restaurant business, too, Feliu is a marathon runner. Rush Street Neighborhood Grill, one of a handful of independently owned, full-service restaurants in Kingsport, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. And the restaurant business - particularly in regards to independents - is so tenuous that the life span of a restaurant might be better judged in dog years.
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"In the restaurant business, 25 years is huge,'' Feliu said. "You think about all the places that have come and gone. ... It's an eternity.''
Rush Street has been anything but static, though. As was the case with its three predecessors in the Windy City area, Chicago Dough Company, when it opened in June of 1980, was only supposed to be a pizzeria. Pizza, pasta, salads, a few subs.
But just as the restaurant outgrew its original marquee - the Chicago Dough name was replaced by Rush Street in late 1989 - it also outgrew its original menu. Feliu and Feliu and company - there is a second Feliu who is also key to the restaurant's staying power - still serve up Chicago-style pizza, but the menu has long included steaks, chicken and seafood. Its bar is one of the oldest and most popular in Kingsport, an atmosphere not unlike "Cheers" where the regulars have been congregating for years.
Feliu said the extensive menu and the bar were necessary extensions for Rush Street to grow.
"When Johnson City got liquor by the drink, Kingsport definitely lost some business to Johnson City,'' Feliu said. "We felt like we had to specialize."
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