Ristorante Milano, which has charmed diners for four decades in San Francisco’s Nob Hill neighborhood, will close permanently. Ristorante Milano’s final day at 1448 Pacific Ave. is March 31, owner Aldo Blasi announced. At 73 years old and after decades working in the restaurant industry, he is retiring, as first reported by the newsletter Tablehopper.

The Nob Hill restaurant is a neighborhood favorite for fresh pasta like house-made ravioli, hand-rolled gnocchi and more. In a 2003 review, former Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer wrote that the spaghetti Milanese was “so good that when the waiter brought an order to another table, the guy stopped talking in midsentence and became flushed, as if he’d just reunited with a long-lost love.”