Brio Italian Grille in Christiana Mall has closed its doors.
The restaurant has been taken off the company's website and comes as the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The website lists 25 Brio restaurants that remain in operation.
Parent company Bravo Brio filed for Chapter 11 in Florida. It was the second filing for the company in five years, according to Nation's Restaurant News.
The restaurant, which had a decade and a half run at the mall, was part of an. expansion of the destination shopping mall that included restaurants with outside entrances.
Other initial occupants of mall restaurant space Panera and California Pizza Kitchen closed at around the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Panera space is now occupied by a P.F. Chang's restaurant which opened in February. A smaller New Jersey restaurant group occupies other dining space.
Brio is one of a number of mid-sized restaurant chains that have struggled with rising food costs, changing dining habits and other issues during and after the pandemic.
Brio, which taps a moderately upscale niche, faced stiff competition in the region, which is home to popular locally owned Italian restaurants and behemoth Olive Garden.
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