Galleria of Mt. Lebanon — Shopping Center Housing Closed Restaurant
The Bravo Italian Kitchen inside Mt. Lebanon’s Galleria mall shut its doors for good on September 8, effective immediately, leaving nearly 30 employees scrambling to figure out what came next. A manager messaged staff that morning about an impromptu meeting, and workers learned only then that the restaurant they’d shown up to serve was permanently closed.
Genevieve McClain, who had worked at the Mt. Lebanon location for nine years, wasn’t even at the Tuesday meeting — she got the news around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, September 9, and told WPXI the closure felt shocking and unnerving. McClain said she has another job to fall back on, but plenty of her former coworkers do not have that cushion. Bravo neither responded to the station’s requests for comment nor explained its reasoning before publication, and the Galleria’s management likewise did not respond to the same requests, per the outlet’s report…