MINNEAPOLIS — Award-winning chef Ann Kim’s popular Uptown restaurant will close its doors on August 30.

According to an Instagram post, Kim’s is closing due to “ongoing financial losses.”

Kim recently renamed the restaurant on West 31st Street from Sooki and Mimi. She opened Kim’s in 2023 with the goal of passing on their Korean-American heritage.

Two months ago, a majority of workers at Kim’s voted to join Unite Here Local 17Minnesota’s hospitality and beverage workers union. Workers said they had issues with wages and hours, but Kim pushed back, saying the move was unnecessary.

The restaurant was also vandalized In early June, someone threw a large cement slab and a paint can through the window.

Kim has expressed her support for Uptown, an area that has been hit hard in recent years and fought to revive him in the midst of an ongoing reconstruction project at Hennepin AvenueBut when her restaurant was vandalized, Kim wrote, “While we believe in Uptown, our team and our guests, we are devastated.”

In 2019, Kim won the James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Midwest, the highest local culinary honor.

Reservations at Kim’s are valid through August 31. Anyone with Kim’s or Sooki and Mimi gift cards can redeem them at any other Kim’s restaurant, including Pizzeria Lola, Hello Pizza and Young Joni.