Great ambitions take flight at The Great Room
NEW BUSINESS Great ambitions take flight at The Great Room The Great Room’s assistant manager M.S. McLemore hangs with Isabella Jacobson in the playroom. Photo A lot of inventions come to market when someone tries to buy something and then discovers it doesn’t exist. If it doesn’t but it should, someone goes to the drawing board and starts designing it, and a new thing comes into the world. A new business on Artesia near the Galleria had its genesis the same way, when Philip Wen and his wife Soomi started looking for places they could take their children, who were then 3 and 6 years old. “We were young parents looking for a place to go that was family-friendly,” Philip Wen said. “Normal restaurants are usually constrained in terms of what they will allow the kids to do, and there just weren’t many kid-friendly choices in this neighborhood. Some places do cater to younger children, but our kids were beginning to outgrow those. My son is capable of sitting in a restaurant with adults as long as he has his iPad in hand, but that only works for so long. There was no place with a play area where he would like going that we would enjoy too, so my wife and I decided to work on creating a…
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