'It's pretty shocking': Allium's chef-owner hopes to re-open before year's end following devastating fire

Last Friday morning, while he was in Chicago for a short vacation, Arup Jana was awakened by a tumult of texts.
“I woke up to my phone going crazy … ‘I’m sorry for your loss.’ I had no idea. It was a bit traumatic,” Jana, the chef-owner of Allium restaurant on Holland Avenue, said Tuesday.
Soon enough, Jana learned that his business, which he opened in 2004, had been devastated by a fire that began in the wee hours Friday morning. Neighbours called 911 at 2:3