Echo Park — When the Echo Park Boathouse cafe reopens next month, it will be selling pizza by the slice. It's a strategy to thwart a losing streak at the location.

Diego Garcia, who owns Silver Lake's Pizza Cafe , received approval last week from the Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners to take over the beleaguered concession.

"This will be a New York slice shop in the middle of Echo Park," said Garcia, who has run his Silver Lake restaurant for five years. "Slice shops are rare, and real N.Y. slices are impossible to find in Los Angeles. I want to bring it to Echo Park Lake."

Four different proprietors have operated a cafe at the boathouse in the past decade. The first concessionaire closed after failing to renew an agreement with the city. After that, the COVID p

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