Il Giglio, which first opened on Greenwich and Harrison as a branch of Il Mulino in 2018, has closed. (I was sent a couple notes about the closure and walked by yesterday and checked online — there are no reservations open.) This is a beautiful spot, from a longstanding restaurateur, so it’s a blow to see it shutter. But it also had a complicated heritage, which may have been part of the issue??

The original Il Mulino opened in the late ’80s on West 3rd Street; as far as I know, that restaurant is still operating. Our location was developed by the current owner of that one, Jerry Katzoff (who joined the Il Mulino owners in 2002 as a partner), starting in 2017, when he took the lease at 361 Greenwich. It was then separated in 2022 and renamed Il Giglio, in honor of the OG on Warren.

There was a direct line between this and the original Il Giglio — which was on Warren for 26 years until it closed in 2015. The owner of that restaurant, Rose Masci, was a partner with Katzoff in the latest iteration.