{"id":141450,"date":"2026-01-28T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/141450\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:04:06","slug":"la-focaccia-grill-closing-after-30-years-in-sas-southtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/141450\/","title":{"rendered":"La Focaccia Grill closing after 30 years in SA&#8217;s Southtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of San Antonio\u2019s most iconic restaurants is closing after a 30-year run. <a href=\"https:\/\/lafocaccia-italian-grill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">La Focaccia Italian Grill<\/a>, at 800 S. Alamo St. in King William, will shutter January 31. Owner Luigi \u201cDomenic\u201d Ciccarelli says he will soon enter retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Luigi and Dolores Ciccarelli, Dominic\u2019s parents, were fixtures of Alamo City\u2019s culinary scene before opening La Focaccia in 1996. The couple ran Luigi\u2019s Italian Restaurant on San Pedro Avenue for 24 years before shifting their attention to Southtown.<\/p>\n<p>La Focaccia soon became a dining staple, offering Italian-American classics like penne alla Siciliana, fettuccine Alfredo, and veal scallopini along with baskets of its namesake bread. It was especially popular at lunch, when customers could enjoy end-of-week specials on chicken and eggplant Parmigiana, pork tenderloin Marsala, and other favorites.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u201890s, the restaurant was also quietly innovative. It helped popularize wood-fired cooking in San Antonio, expanded the city\u2019s wine palate with Italian varietals, and began offering cooking classics long before they were common. Several of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lafocaccia-italian-grill.com\/luigis-recipes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">original recipes<\/a> are posted on the website today.<\/p>\n<p>The closure isn\u2019t a complete surprise. In 2016, Dominic put the property up for sale in 2016, offering buyers the chance to take over the La Focaccia name. In 2023, he reportedly renewed the effort, announcing his desire to retire from the day-t0-day of restaurant life. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what will happen to the 1952 building, located near Mixtli and Pharm Table on a valuable King William corner lot. Longtime fans still have a couple of days to say goodbye during its regular 11 am-9 pm service through Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of San Antonio\u2019s most iconic restaurants is closing after a 30-year run. La Focaccia Italian Grill, at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[745,5468,741,82,84,83,740],"class_list":{"0":"post-141450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-closings","9":"tag-italian-food","10":"tag-king-william","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","13":"tag-san-antonio-news","14":"tag-southtown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}