Daniel Maestri is still confident that he will reopen Mary Maestri's Italian Grillroom, his family's iconic northwest Arkansas restaurant. Mary Maestri's closed at the end of February when its lease ran out at the restaurant's location on East Robinson Avenue in Springdale.

Maestri was close to a deal with an investor to reopen the restaurant in May at a former Ta Molly's on South 48th Street in Springdale, but the deal fell through. Maestri, 61, is the grandson of Aldo and Mary Maestri, who founded the restaurant in her kitchen in 1923.

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Source: http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/