Mona Lisa restaurant in San Francisco's North Beach closing after nearly 50 years in business

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 12:22AM

SF's Mona Lisa restaurant closing after nearly 50 years

The iconic Mona Lisa Restaurant in San Francisco is closing by the end of the week after nearly five decades in business.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — An iconic Italian restaurant in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, is closing by the end of the week after nearly 50 years in business.

Mona Lisa Restaurant located at 353 Columbus Ave. will close on October 31 at midnight.

It first opened in 1979.

Owners Filomena and Maurizio Florese said in a press release, the decision to shut down the popular Italian restaurant “was a difficult one to make.”

Currently employees have a chance to find a job at one of the Florese’s other restaurants The Old Clam House, Steps of Rome and Mona Lisa Mare E Monti.

Some of Mona Lisa’s popular menu items as well as Mona Lisa’s memorabilia, including 120 historic photographs, will be added to sister restaurant, Mona Lisa Mare E Monti’s. That restaurant is located across the street at 414 Columbus Ave.

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