My Buddy’s Place, a Sicilian-inspired restaurant that opened in downtown Bucksport last year, has announced it is closing.

“It is with heavy hearts that we share we will be closing our doors on September 30, 2025, due to a variety of ongoing issues, one of them being health,” the restaurant said in a Facebook post on Sunday.

Owner and chief Dustin Diolio opened My Buddy’s Place in July of 2024 at 84 Main St., which previously had been the popular Friar’s Brewhouse Tap Room. At the time, Diolio’s goal was to serve elevated comfort food such as sliders and house-made pasta.

In the Facebook post announcing the closure, the restaurant said it “fully intend[s] to reopen in a new location in the future.”

“This has not been an easy decision, as this restaurant has been more than a bu

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