After what owner Yang ("just Yang," he says) describes as a "mild fire" six months ago, Yang's Flowers, part of the Avenue and Davenport flower district (that also includes Grower's, Jong Young and Kay & Young's), re-opened last week at 132 Avenue Road.
An employee next door at high-end kitchen supply store
Bianco Plus say the fire was actually quite big, but was limited to Yang's space, with no collateral damage either to them or to
L'Unita restaurant, which shares its southern wall with Yang's.
Damage was extensive enough that Yang decided to take the opportunity to completely renovate. "We re-built the whole store," he says. "Everything's new."
That includes the name, too. After 10 years of being Yang's Fruit & Flowers, and a number of years of not actually selling any fruit, the shop is now simply Yang's Flowers.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Yang at Yang's Flowers