When the owners of Nick’s Italian Cafe in McMinnville announced their plans to close last July via social media, the outpouring of well wishes was immediate. For 46 years, the James Beard Award-winning restaurant was a beloved community institution, known for its handmade pastas, wood-fired pizzas, and cozy Backroom Bar, a speakeasy-style billiard room behind the restaurant. It was arguably the first destination restaurant in an otherwise quite casual, agricultural town, long before McMinnville was a tourist destination.
In a sweet turn for fans of the restaurant, this particular goodbye wasn’t forever. The News-Register first reported that Thomas Ghinazzi, Jordan Neale, and Scott Baldwin — the owners of
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