Doing good never tasted so good.
If you have a January 30 reservation at Sap Sua, the buzzy Vietnamese restaurant that was named one of America’s fifty best new restaurants by Esquire in 2023, take note: The place will be closed, and the doors at 2550 East Colfax Avenue locked, but you won’t go hungry.
Sap Sua is one of a growing list of hospitality businesses joining the National General Strike that day, to protest ICE and the actions of the Trump administration. “It has been increasingly difficult to watch what is unfolding in our country,” Sap Sua announced on January 28 on Instagram. “We have felt so helpless and alone and it’s abundantly clear that no one will come to save us, so it is our civic duty to unite as a community in support of the most vulnerable. We understand how difficult of a position it is to be in as a small business owner, yet we fear that this may be the only way: Choosing to withhold our spending power to enact real change.”…