Italian Restaurant Closing Its Doors
An Italian restaurant in Fountain Hill is closing its doors a little year after first opening.
Tinto Tapas & Pasta owner Giacomo Sgroi posted on the restaurant’s social media accounts Tuesday that this Saturday, April 25, will be the last day the business is open.
“After giving this our absolute all, we’ve made the very difficult decision that this will be our final week at our current location,” a post on Tinto’s Instagram page said. “This decision did not come lightly. We poured our hearts, time, energy and every resource we had into trying to make this location work.”
“We are incredibly proud of the food, memories, celebrations and connections that were made here,” it said. “Sometimes, despite your best efforts, circumstances make it impossible to continue in the current space.”
The specific circumstances that led to the decision weren’t identified, but Sgroi said he plans to reopen somewhere else.
“We fully intend to find the right new home and begin again,” the announcement said. “When that time comes, we hope you’ll be there with us.”
Sgroi–who grew up in Sicily and Florida–previously owned and operated Nonna Sulina’s Sicilian Kitchen in Hanover Township, Northampton County, with his father, before a fire shuttered it for good. The elder Sgroi was an experienced business owner who had previously operated a waterfront restaurant near Palermo before coming to the United States.
The building in which Tinto is located at 1028 Broadway has been home to a succession of restaurants and bars in recent years. Prior to Tinto’s opening, it was the location of Game Time Sports Bar & Grill, which closed in August 2024. Before that, it was home to Saranda’s on Broadway–a fine dining establishment–and prior to that it was the Benner Street Restaurant, which was featured on the popular show Restaurant Impossible in 2013, less than a year before it closed.
Despite having a population of around 5,000 people, the borough of Fountain Hill is home to just a handful of restaurants, although nearby in South Bethlehem there is a robust dining scene with dozens of establishments in operation.
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