Brass Lantern owner says several factors play into Alexandria restaurant's closure
Owners restaurant in Viking Plaza thank customers for their years of support. 6:06 am, Jan. 16, 2021 × The Brass Lantern in the Viking Plaza Mall in Alexandria sits empty as the restaurant will not be reopening. (Celeste Edenloff / Echo Press) Mike Sieve has been in the restaurant business for 41 years and for the last 14 years, he’s ran the Brass Lantern, a cafe in the Viking Plaza Mall that he owned with his brother, Jon, and that has been in the Sieve family for nearly four decades. But a post on the Brass Lantern’s Facebook page dated Jan. 9 indicated that the Alexandria ...