WORCESTER — The Sahara Restaurant evidently closed its doors for excellent Friday evening.

Many patrons eating at the Highland Street cafe Friday claimed they’d arrive to mark the Middle Jap eatery’s ultimate day after obtaining wind of the closure. Lots of were saddened by the information.

“We cried all 7 days,” Nikki Allen reported of herself and her friend Amanda Whitner, who after labored as a waitress and bartender at Sahara. “We genuinely did.”

Allen explained the team was lacking one individual, Nina Tetreault, who was in labor and preparing to give delivery to her initial kid. Tetreault, according to her buddies, was let down she could not be there, but Allen prepared to sneak a to-go buy into the healthcare facility, she said.

The cafe was known for its “gourmand Lebanese delicacies” with both equally unique and very simple dishes. It was the options that brought Rhiannon Chiacchiaro again time and again throughout her days at Worcester Polytechnic Institute extra than a 10 years in the past.

“I was vegetarian in school and I could constantly find anything below,” she reported, adding that now she has been diagnosed with an allergy to wheat and was still able to delight in a selection of appetizers.

Four recent WPI seniors also produced their way into the restaurant on Friday but they have been initially-timers stopping by to see what they’d been lacking immediately after listening to about the closure.

“Sit everywhere,” they had been told, and they settled into a desk towards the wall and requested.

What is next for the creating stays unclear.

It was however outlined Friday for sale at a cost of $869,000 on the Kelleher & Sadowsky website though some staff members explained they thought it experienced been offered.

There were no recorded product sales of the web site in the Worcester Registry of Deeds as of Friday.