{"id":3063,"date":"2025-10-16T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3063\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:22:11","slug":"picas-the-beloved-delaware-county-restaurant-closing-after-70-years-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3063\/","title":{"rendered":"Pica&#8217;s, the beloved Delaware County restaurant, closing after 70 years in business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">UPPER DARBY TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A beloved restaurant in <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/place\/delaware-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Delaware County<\/a> is closing its doors for good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After 70 years in business, Pica&#8217;s on West Chester Pike in Upper Darby will shut down this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;After nearly 70 wonderful years of serving the Upper Darby community, it is with heavy hearts that we announce that Pica&#8217;s Restaurant, Upper Darby will be closing in the summer 2025,&#8221; the business wrote in a letter Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The restaurant is a family-owned business, now in its third generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The owners say the decision was a difficult one that was several years in the making.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They say they&#8217;ve been touched by people sharing memories of the restaurant which, they say, is a tribute to their father and grandfather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pica&#8217;s will keep its newer location in West Chester open.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER DARBY TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A beloved restaurant in Delaware County is closing its doors for good.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2751,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-2751","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\/3063","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=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}