Popular Maine Sicilian Restaurant Announces Permanent Closure

The restaurant business has always been financially risky.

Typically, restaurants are either in business for decades or they fail within a year or two.  Sadly, the latter often tends to be the case.

That's one of the main reasons that it is so difficult to secure funding for a restaurant.  Banks have never been excited to hand over stacks of money so that you can follow your dreams.

While restaurants have always had a high failure rate, it seems to have gotten even worse in the last few years.  Thanks to a number of reasons, including the pandemic and the high levels of inflation, we have seem some of the most well established restaurants close their doors since 2020.

It looks like another Maine restaurant will soon close permanently.

My Buddy's Place in Bucksport, Maine

In a Sunday morning Facebook post, My Buddy's Place, a Sicilian-inspired restaurant in Bucksport, announced that they would be closing permanently.

The post explained that there were a number of reasons for the closure, including health issues.

The post said, in part:

Please know, this is not goodbye. Our dream continues, and we fully intend to reopen in a new location in the future. So think of this as a pause—a “see you next time.”

You can read the full statement HERE.

Their last day in business will be September 30th.

This news comes just days after the news that Evenrood's in Bangor will close permanently at the end of the year.