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PizzaPapalis in Greektown (Photo: Yelp/Heather S.)
PizzaPapalis stood out in Greektown as a taste of Chicago, but its deep-dish pies will be no more on Monroe.
After a lengthy closure that was to be temporary, the location won't reopen.
"We've been at the Greektown location for 36 years," it posts Sunday afternoon on social media, "and due to the pandemic, resulting in fewer dining customers, labor shortages and the lack of lunch trade, it was time."
A co-owner spoke to the Detroit Free Press:
Its contents will be sold in an online auction starting Monday, said Joe Sheena, who co-owns the chain with his brother Mark.
The restaurant has been a fixture on Monroe Street in Detroit's Greektown since 1986. All five of PizzaPapalis' other metro Detroit locations, as well as a location in Toledo, Ohio, will remain open.
Mark Sheena said the location was too big to continue to operate in the pandemic. A deal under which the location would have been sold and kept a PizzaPapalis reportedly fell through.
"Many of our long-tenured employees have been relocated" at the sites in Detroit's Rivertown area, Bloomfield Township, Southfield and Taylor, the business posts.
