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Weird business at Eighth and Christian
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Weird business at Eighth and Christian
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| Photo | Drew Lazor |
A Meal Ticket tipster told us to check out something fishy going on at Mezza Luna/Bella Luna at Eighth and Christian, so we popped by yesterday evening for a look. This past summer, the former Paxia was taken over by Pietro D�Abbraccio, who moved his Mezza Luna restaurant from 763 S. Eighth to this corner space. As of right now, though, the space is dark, locked up with a heavy chain, and a note on the door reads as follows:
Peter,
You fled!
Left the restaurant unlocked!
Unattended!
I put on the chain!
I am contacting my attorney!
Joanne
Dec 7th, 2009
About 4:00PM
A search of Philadelphia's Common Pleas Court docket turns up a Nov. 13 filing against D'Abbraccio, bearing the address of the restaurant, that seeks more than $16,000 in damages. (According to The Insider, a very similar thing happened with Mezza Luna's original space down the block.)
The restaurant's phone line is disconnected, but we've written an e-mail to D'Abbraccio in an attempt to get more information on the matter.
[...] Mezza Luna which moved down the block over the summer has seemed to check out. The drama posted for the world to see in the window. [Meal Ticket] [...]
It was weird when we were there it wasn't that busy, and come on how many restaurants do you know of in philly that suddenly become cash only, it sounded fishy to me at the time. That compiled with the fact that they had 1 waitor and 6 bus boys, even if it does come back I think I will go to sabrina's instead.
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