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Act fast if you plan to a first visit or return to this Eastern Market restaurant that came in with 2016 and goes out 12 months later.
La Rondinella last month. (Yelp! photo by Lauren R.)
The adjacent offshoot of Supino's shuts Saturday night, Mark Kurlyandchik reports in the Detroit Free Press:
Despite steady business and positive press, Supino impresario Dave Mancini's foray into upscale northern Italian dining is coming to an abrupt end.
Mancini plans to shutter his Eastern Market restaurant La Rondinella after its last dinner service Saturday, barely a year after it first opened.
If all goes as planned, the restaurant will re-open Jan. 31 as an expanded version of Supino.
The 43-year-old owner is up-front about his move. "What fits better for me is not a fine-dining approach," he tells the food writer, adding that he prefers "a little more casual approach."
La Rondinella earns an average rating of four stars from patrons on Yelp! and TripAdvisor.
Its debut on the fifth day of 2016 had been "one of the most anticipated restaurant openings in town for months," Melody Baetens wrote in The Detroit News wrote.
