Birmingham Italian Dish holding closing sale

Birmingham store The Italian Dish is holding a retirement sale as owner/operator Holly Anselmi has decided it is time to move on after 20 years of owning the shop.

The Italian Dish, 288 E. Maple Road, between S. Old Woodward and Woodward avenues, features specialty dinnerware, kitchenware, home décor, linens and gifts from Italy and other parts of Europe. Anselmi noted it's “a little bittersweet to close. Twenty years of retail have been good to me, but it's time to do something new.”

Everything in the store, from Vietri, Juliska, Simon Pierce, Casafina, Costa Nova, Busatti, Arte Italica, Zafferano, Mary Jurek Designs and others, are on sale until everything is gone, Anselmi said, at the very latest the end of September, when the lease for the store is gone, “but more likely by the end of August,” Anselmi said.

“Come quickly. It's going fast. We'd love everyone to have something to remember us by,” she said.

What's next for Anselmi? “We recently moved to Grosse Pointe and I'm going to be settling and nesting in. Then I don't know. I'm open.”