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Union Shop

R.E. Graswich
The Sacramento Bee

April 11, 2001

Lloyd Harvego has gone the extra step as a rookie restaurateur. Taking over the Firehouse in Old Sacramento, he polished up an aged dowager, hired a brilliant chef and transformed the menu into a bastion of full-throttle Pacific Rim delights. Lloyd even affirmed the Firehouse's status as a proud union house. So naturally Harvego was miffed when he heard State Senate boss John Burton was upset about not having a decent union restaurant to patronize downtown after the demise of Virgo’s. "Did I miss something?” Harvego asked. Nope, and as soon as the kitchen can whip up something involving zesty tomatoes (a Burton favorite), yours truly has it on good authority that the senator from San Francisco will be beating a path to the Firehouse's back door.