Pica’s restaurant in Upper Darby is closing its location in the summer of 2025 after a 69-year legacy of serving its signature pan pizza and other old world Italian delicacies at the same location on West Chester Pike.
The restaurant plans to relocate and downsize somewhere else in Delaware County, writes Michael Klein for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Pica’s was a favorite gathering spot for baby showers, wedding showers, parties, and weddings.
The new location has not yet been announced. A second Picas restaurant in West Chester that opened in 2017 will remain.
Pica’s garnered national attention when Upper Darby native Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon shared its cheese-on-the-bottom, sauce-on-top pizza on The Tonight Show back in 2014.
“This pizza is the best,” Fey said, sporting her best Delco. “Your sauce — gravy — is on da top.”
The restaurant grew out of a bread delivery route and Frank’s Pizzeria in West Philadelphia, started by Italian immigrant Frank Pica Sr.
He and son Frank Jr. moved to Upper Darby and set up a full-service restaurant and banquet hall. Frank Pica Jr. who ran the restaurant with his wife, Camille, died in 2019.
The business is now run by their children.
Find out more about Pica’s legacy in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
