{"id":15156,"date":"2025-10-26T01:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/15156\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:17:07","slug":"picas-restaurant-in-upper-darby-to-have-final-dine-in-day-sunday-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/15156\/","title":{"rendered":"Pica\u2019s Restaurant in Upper Darby to have final dine-in day Sunday \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Pica&#8217;s Restaurant in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/upper-darby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Upper Darby<\/a> will have its last dine-in day of service on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2025, ending a long and cherished run in the location. <\/p>\n<p>The popular restaurant, which has been featured by Upper Darby native Tina Fey on &#8220;The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,&#8221; said it is ending dining at the location as they transition to &#8220;a new building.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Takeout will still be available for customers for the time being, and Pica&#8217;s other location in West Chester will not be impacted, the restaurant said. <\/p>\n<p>First established in 1941, Pica\u2019s was founded in West Philadelphia by Frank Pica, Sr., who brought a unique pizza flavor from Italy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wanted to share his tradition of what he had in Italy,\u201d Angelina Pica-Oandasan, the restaurant\u2019s current owner, told NBC10 back in March. \u201cAnd he would give that to his customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank Pica, Jr., then took over when the restaurant moved to Upper Darby, where it remained a staple for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Lifelong customer Joe Quigley said it\u2019s the sauce that has helped him remain a loyal customer since the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the sauce and it\u2019s the people,\u201d Quigley told NBC10 in March. \u201cThey have the knack to hire the right people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPica&#8217;s restaurant, a pizza spot in Upper Darby, is set to close after 70 years of operation. NBC10&#8217;s Yukare Nakayama spoke to the owners and customers of the beloved restaurant.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The popular Pica&#8217;s Restaurant in Upper Darby will have its last dine-in day of service on Sunday, Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-15156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}