By Esther Davidowitz | NorthJersey
After being closed for three months, Lido Restaurant, a near 54-year-old, old-school Italian-American restaurant in Hackensack, has reopened with new family ownership and a completely restored interior.
“Every single table and chair left the building during the restoration and then everything was brought back, completely scrubbed and reupholstered,” said Kevin Parany, who co-owns the 122-seat spot with his cousin and father-in-law.
The Main Street restaurant, he said, has been refreshed with new floors, new ceiling, new bathrooms — and a new functioning bar. Although Lido had a liquor license and served alcohol since the 1970s, it didn’t have a working bar.
“Apparently in the ’70s, the family that owned it feared that the bar would get too loud and rowdy so they shut it down,” Parany said.
Today there’s an 11-stool bar.
The menu, for the most part, has remained the same, offering many of Lido’s popular items including thin-crust pizza, open-faced sliced-steak sandwich and chicken Parmesan. “We spoke to the staff and asked about the top-selling items,” Parany said. “We want to keep true to Lido.”