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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8539748" data-attributes="member: 50987">Man, I can empathize.  A good neighborhood restaurant is a treasure.I lost a really great deli across the street in the early days of the pandemic...they were a small, family-owned joint that was just too dependent on foot traffic to make it work with online delivery and such.  They had the best tuna salad and the best Reuben, and their rotator tap had some really great local microbrews.  But alas, Covid-19 put an end to their 20+ years of business.The place sat empty for a little more than a year, and then recently reopened as a completely different restaurant.  The young couple who opened it up are really nice, and I wish them the best, but it's just...not the same.  The deli I know and love, the place where my wife and I had one of our first dates together as a couple, the place we rented out completely--kitchen and all--to host our wedding reception, is no more.</blockquote>