Beloved eatery facing closure

was Catholic convent.

In the latest instance, Chardas' second incarnation was to rise across the street in the former convent and rectory at St. Ladislaus R.C. Church. But a kitchen fire in February destroyed much of that structure. Rebuilding it to restaurant code proved to be too expensive, city and other officials said.

August J. Molnar, the president of the American-Hungarian Foundation who helped broker that move, across what's known as Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty Square, said that while the effort to find the restaurant a new location continues, "It's kind of dead in the water."

Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty Square, what an irony as he resisted every Communist attack on the Church.

Comments