Overview
- Final service is set for Oct. 31 at 353 Columbus Ave in San Francisco’s North Beach.
- Recipes and memorabilia — including 120 historic photos and a 1968 Fiat 500 — will relocate across the street to sister spot Mona Lisa Mare e Monti at 414 Columbus Ave.
- Most employees will transition to family-owned restaurants, including Mona Lisa Mare e Monti, Steps of Rome and The Old Clam House, according to the owners.
- Owners Filomena Azzolino Nevigato Florese and Maurizio Florese invited patrons to stop in for one last visit before the doors close.
- Coverage notes conflicting origin accounts, with the Chronicle quoting Maurizio that the couple opened the restaurant in 1979 while KRON4 reports they joined in 1997.