Yenching Palace, replaced by a Walgreens Pharmacy (after the restaurant's closing in 2007.

ID: 5819 ~ Creator: Image taken by Zachary Burt
This file appears in: Lingering on the Palate: Yenching Palace (1955 - 2007)
Yenching Palace, replaced by a Walgreens Pharmacy (after the restaurant's closing in 2007.
Image Courtesy of the DC Preservation League

Image of Yenching Palace turned Walgreens Pharmacy storefront.

This file appears in: Lingering on the Palate: Yenching Palace (1955 - 2007)

This restaurant opened as Peking Palace in 1955 and was located in the former space of Seafare, a restaurant which had operated in Cleveland Park since 1945. The original founder, S. Van Lung (1936- 1881), took so much inspiration from another…