The restaurant was one the neighborhood’s most respected staples, in large part because of the respect afforded its owner

Chef Maurice Yim has announced that the fusion pizza joint known as PowWow Pizza will be closing up shop immediately.

After seven years, The Red Leprechaun’s owner Tracy Ames has decided to not renew her lease and has sold to new owners.

After serving the Belmont Heights community for 60 years, Francelli’s—the Italian-American restaurant that first opened as a market in 1969—has closed up shop.

Papalucci’s—much like Francelli’s on Fourth Street—is the type of space that marked the presence of Italian-American families in local food: red-and-white checkered table cloths, an open kitchen and fare that fused Italian cuisine with American sensibilities that was imported largely from the East Coast.