Reinne’s Place, a Vietnamese and Filipino coffee shop, currently operates as a pop-up in Long Beach, Calif.
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- A man has honored late girlfriend’s dream of owning a coffee shop more than three years after her death
- Reinne Lim died in October 2022, when she and boyfriend Tommy Le’s car was struck head-on by a drunk driver
- Reinne’s Place, which describes itself as a Vietnamese and Filipino coffee shop, currently operates as a pop-up in Long Beach, Calif., with a brick-and-mortar location set to open soon
A man has honored his late girlfriend’s dream of owning a coffee shop, more than three years after her death.
Tommy Le and Reinne Lim were driving in October 2022, when their car was struck head-on by a drunk driver going the wrong way on the freeway. Lim died at the scene, and Le was left in critical condition, the Long Beach Post reported. (The other driver, Dylan Erric James Robinson, meanwhile, was sentenced in June 2024, jail records show.)
In his eulogy for Lim, Le spoke about his girlfriend’s hopes to open a coffee shop of their own someday, after the pair met when Lim was working as a barista, per the Long Beach Post…