{"id":190308,"date":"2026-05-12T16:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190308\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:57:19","slug":"joseph-tambellini-restaurant-in-highland-park-listed-for-sale-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190308\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Tambellini Restaurant in Highland Park listed for sale \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Two months after announcing a temporary closure, Joseph Tambellini Restaurant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizbuysell.com\/business-real-estate-for-sale\/tambellini-s-highland-park-corner-restaurant-with-real-estate\/2408917\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been listed for sale.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The fine dining Italian restaurant first opened in Highland Park at 5701 Bryant Street in 2007 when the owners of former french restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/stories\/2007\/05\/14\/daily11.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laforet sold the space to Melissa and Joseph Tambellini.<\/a> At the time, Joseph Tambellini was the executive chef of Franco\u2019s Trattoria in Dormont, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/stories\/2008\/10\/13\/story13.html?page=all\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">later expanded to its now sole location in McMurray.<\/a> In February, the restaurant announced it would go \u201con a break until further notice,\u201d but indicated it planed to reopen in the future. Now, however, the restaurant has been listed for sale, with Tambellini confirming the decision was made to move on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cIt was a choice to close, it wasn\u2019t like \u2018oh god, we\u2019re out of money,\u2019 it was more of a Forest Gumpish, like, \u2018I\u2019m tired,\u201d Tambellini said. \u201cI\u2019m very grateful to everybody that has patronized us over the year and even in this short period I miss already a lot of the guests that I\u2019d see on a weekly basis. It\u2019s been great and I\u2019m looking forward to whatever I do next and we\u2019ll see what happens, but the building is for sale. Everything in it is all first class and it\u2019s a great location. 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