My wife and I have been fans of the Gretalia Group's food ever since one of its restaurants, Osteria Procaccini in Kingston, started serving exquisite Neopolitan-style pizza in 2011. But something wasn't quite right about Gretalia's comfort-food-driven menu at Northend Bistro, which opened in 2013.

A reviewer for The New York Times felt the same way, as did a lot of its customers. In March, after declining sales, the owners, the brothers John and Tino Procaccini and their business partner, Zissis Pappas, decided to ditch the comfort food and go back to the Italian fare they were known for in their other Kingston restaurant, La Principessa, which had closed in 2005. After a quick rebranding, Northend Bistro became Trattoria Procaccini.

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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/