The bad news: another independent restaurant closed yesterday. .
The good news: 6 new restaurants are scheduled to open within the next 30 days (see next post). It seems the metro area continues to gain more restaurants than it loses. But that's no consolation to Caito's in Chesterfield. Its lease was up in January, yet the decision was made to pull the plug prematurely. Caito's opened a second store in Glendale, but closed it in June of 2009, making way for the second location of P'sghetti's.
It's a shame. Caito's had one of the best specialty pizzas in town, a unique seafood number with loads of shrimp, crab, tentacles of calamari, an incredible (= perfect) amount of garlic, underlayed with a lemon pesto sauce. I will miss that pie.
