D'Amico & Sons closing Grand Avenue location after two decades

Its other Twin Cities locations will remain open.

February 19, 2019 at 10:18PM
St. Paul, MN Monday 7/30/2001 The evening crew at D'Amico and Sons restaurant on Grand Avenue passed time reading, looking at vacation pictures and drinking ice water hoping that full power would be restored and they could reopen for the evening ( picture was taken around 5:00pm). Other shops and restaurants along the popular commercial stretch of Grand Av had hung 'closed' signs in the door Foreground, l-r Micheal Hamley, Julia Thompson -looking at pictures,- Betsy Burr, reading, background l-r
File photo (2001): D’Amico & Sons on Grand Avenue is closing. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

One of the most well-known names in Twin Cities restaurants will have one less shop after this coming weekend.

The St. Paul location of D'Amico & Sons, the casual pizza-pasta cafe known for its bargain date-night dinners and unlimited wine and beer deals, is closing.

Feb. 24 is the last day of service at the eatery, at 975 Grand Av.

"After 22 great years in St. Paul we want to thank our customers who have been so loyal," owner Larry D'Amico said in a statement. "Our lease is up, and we will not be renewing, but we hope all of our guests will continue to dine at our other locations."

Fans of its boxed lunches and bottomless mimosas can visit other D'Amico & Sons locations in Edina, downtown Minneapolis, Golden Valley, Roseville and Wayzata, and on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.

There is also an outpost for snowbirds in Naples, Fla.

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