TARANTINO’S CLOSES

Just got off the phone with Peter Tarantino. It’s true: he’s shuttered the restaurant’s doors. A sad day for the fiance and me. Tarantino’s was our favorite restaurant. Peter says his place never had significant capital behind it. The summer’s heat has been brutal. So, too, the reputation about Deep Ellum, that it remains a violent, thug-heavy neighborhood. “It just isn’t true,” Tarantino says. “The cops have really cleaned it up. People need to know that.”