Amalfi Ristorante Italiano Owners To Leave MOCO, May Sell Business

ROCKVILLE, MD — The owners of Amalfi Ristorante Italiano are planning to move away from Montgomery County, but the restaurant will be open for at least a few more months. The owners wrote in a post on Facebook that they are getting ready for the next phase of their lives.

"The time has come for us to officially announce that after 45 years we will be looking to relocate out of Montgomery County later this year," the Facebook post says. "In the next couple of months, we will be putting up Amalfi for sale and we will be getting ready for the next phase in our lives. We will be selling both the building and for the right price even the Amalfi name, including all of our recipes."

They wrote that their hope is to "leave an Amalfi here" for the restaurants regulars, but says it will depend on the offers they get.

"We do promise to maintain our quality and excellence up until that very last shift," the post says. In honor of our father and all of you, our wonderful faithful regulars, we will do our very best till the very end."

The owners wrote that once the building is sold, they plan to pack up into an RV and visit whatever states interest them.

"Wherever we end up we will open another restaurant," Amalfi Ristorante Italiano commented on its own post. "It can be as close as Virginia and as far as Oklahoma but we just don't know yet."

They asked their regulars to come in for their last visits, and consider the slower days of the week — Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays — as reservations start to fill up.

"Thank you all again for your support and kindness over the past four decades," the owners wrote. "We wish you all the very best and may God bless each and every one of you. It was our honor and pleasure to serve you."

The closure was first reported by Bethesda Beat.