After 33 years, Seventh Street Cafe in Garden City is closing its doors. Owners Victor and Brooke Scotto have sold the Italian restaurant and are planning to retire.

With a location on Garden City’s "it" block, a bright, Italianate dining room, separate party room and sheltered sidewalk seating, it’s one of the village’s most desirable spots. When approached by a local restaurateur about taking over the space, "we had been talking about selling it and we could not pass up this offer," Brooke said.

It was 1992 when Victor Scotto, then-owner of Chateau Briand catering venue ( which closed in 2022 ) bought the restaurant for his daughter, Victoria, who was graduating from Hofstra. Once she had her first child though, Brooke explained, the new mother took a job with her father at the cater

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