{"id":1113,"date":"2017-11-03T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/food\/kafe-neo-closes-doors-after-a-decade-serving-up-greek-american-deliciousness\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T19:30:19","slug":"kafe-neo-closes-doors-after-a-decade-serving-up-greek-american-deliciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/kafe-neo-closes-doors-after-a-decade-serving-up-greek-american-deliciousness","title":{"rendered":"Kafe Neo Closes Doors After a Decade Serving Up Greek American Deliciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-56540\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/10500242_10152078653142242_3875555684126289806_n.jpg\" alt=\"10500242 10152078653142242 3875555684126289806 n\" width=\"620\" height=\"412\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image from Kafe Neo\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/kafeneolb\/\">Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a letter to their loyal customers posted to Facebook Thursday, owners and brothers Gus and Pete Sverkos of the locally lauded Kafe Neo announced the closing of its \u201cAmerican kitchen with Greek soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was following an October 31 post stating the restaurant would be closed until further notice, where nearly 30 commenters replied in disappointment that their favorite place to dine would no longer be serving up its signature greek fare. The restaurant had also just celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a block party on October 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was one of the most difficult decisions my brother and I have had to make and it pains us to close what was literally a dream come true,\u201d stated the post.<\/p>\n<p>Gus and Pete, whose family used to run a foreign car garage called The Carriage Shop in the same location, stated their decision to close was based on them wanting to spend more time with their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter seeing our parents work tirelessly for over 40 years in this very same location, we wanted to reconsider our priorities,\u201d stated the Facebook post. \u201cAfter more than twelve years on this journey, working 7 days a week for months at a time, the challenges of maintaining the quality and service of the restaurant became taxing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkafeneolb%2Fposts%2F10154658081222242&amp;width=500\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"500\" height=\"287\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Kafe Neo\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/kafe-neo-long-beach\">Yelp page<\/a> states the restaurant is scheduled to reopen on December 1, but a call to the eatery for comment went unanswered at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>The 2800 East 4th Street location may be transformed into a medical marijuana dispensary. It\u2019s yet to be seen whether a Sacramento County-based company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca-registry.com\/C3984911-ryan-burns-collective\">Ryan Burns Collective<\/a>,\u00a0can meet the requirements necessary to obtain a license and officially open up shop.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/10-dispensary-operators-hit-medical-marijuana-jackpot-in-long-beach\/\">public lottery on Thursday, September 28<\/a>, the Ryan Burns Collective was one of the 10 non-priority applicants determined to be eligible to receive a medical marijuana license. The collective joined the 22 other businesses given priority to receive licenses if the requirements of the Long Beach Municipal Code and other laws can be met as they build out their spaces.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width:100%; float:left;\" \/>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; float: left;\">\n<div style=\"width: 100px; height: 100px; background-image: url('images\/jason\/LotteryBall2.JPG'); background-size: cover; background-position: center center; float: left; margin-right: 30px; display:none;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p> <small style=\"font-weight: lighter;\">RELATED<\/small> <\/p>\n<h2 ><a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'Related Link', 'click', 'Realted Link v1');\" href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/10-dispensary-operators-hit-medical-marijuana-jackpot-in-long-beach\/\">10 Dispensary Operators Hit Medical Marijuana Jackpot In Long Beach<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 0;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%; float:left;\" \/>\n<p>The collective also applied to set up shop at three other sites throughout Long Beach, which it was denied and placed on the Pending\/Ineligible List. If any of the 32 eligible dispensary applicants already selected to move forward in the process are unable to obtain a license at their proposed locations, it&#8217;s the list the city will refer to in order to fill that spot.<\/p>\n<p>Keep up to date with Kafe Neo via its Facebook page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kafeneolb\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis was one of the most difficult decisions my brother and I have had to make and it pains us to close what was literally a dream come true,\u201d stated the owners&#8217; Facebook post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":66578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[611],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-greek-food","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}