{"id":265634,"date":"2026-08-15T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265634\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:38:09","slug":"after-68-years-a-philly-seafood-restaurant-is-permanently-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265634\/","title":{"rendered":"After 68 Years, A Philly Seafood Restaurant Is Permanently Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, General Manager Brett Kelly has been running the restaurant with his twin brother, Brian. But after an illness severely limited Brian&#8217;s ability to work, they decided it was time to sell the place, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/food\/restaurants\/kellys-seafood-closing-northeast-philadelphia-20260810.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the Kelly&#8217;s announced plans to retire and sell the property. They initially said they would remain open until it&#8217;s sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In recent years, General Manager Brett Kelly has been running the restaurant with his twin brother, Brian. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-265634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265634","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=265634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}