Let us review…
In February of 2006, in this posting, we noted that the Old Spaghetti Factory — a classy/campy restaurant up on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood — was soon to close.
Then in July, we received the happy news that the business had received a reprieve of indeterminate length. And last November, an executive in the Old Spaghetti Factory company e-mailed me that the Sunset Boulevard location would be open for at least two more years.
It turns out to have been a pretty short two years…a little less than seven months, actually. There are signs up now at that location (and a notice on the chain's website) saying that its last day of operations will be June 19. And just to show that they mean it this time, an auction of the fixtures, furnishings and restaurant equipment will take place on June 23. Shortly after, the rear section of the building will be demolished and the front section will be incorporated into a new 23-story residential tower with 301 for-sale condominiums, 40,000-sq.ft. of "creative office space," 13,500-sq.ft. of ground floor retail space, 508 parking spaces and a new half-acre public park.
So it looks like that's it for that outlet of the Old Spaghetti Factory. The posted signs urge its patrons to visit other Old Spaghetti Factory locations in Southern California. The nearest would be the one in Duarte, which is twenty miles away and also requires that you visit Duarte.
Guess I'd better get up there to Sunset in the next couple of weeks for a farewell lunch. I'll take my camera and snap some pics to post here.