UPDATE: Taverna Greek will not close, just heavily restyled

It appears that previous reports that Spike Mendelsohn will close the Taverna Greek restaurant on the hill and turn it into a pizza joint are partially incorrect. Spike and his family HAVE purchased the restaurant. They are going through the process of cleaning it up and trimming the menu, ostensibly to concentrate on doing a few things right rather than a lot of things wrong. They WILL be serving pizza in the restaurant at some point in the near future.

This could go either way... the food at Taverna was never what one could call gourmet... at the same point, Spike was once reprimanded by the DC health department for storing his ground beef in the alley, so... we'll see.