Closed Italian eatery in Westborough sells to Asian restaurant group for $3M

Formerly a location of the Chateau, a Waltham-based Italian restaurant, a property on Route 9 in Westborough sold for $2.88 million, according to the Worcester County Registry of Deeds.

The property sold to a corporation registered to Alvin Wong of Harvard, according to the state corporations division. Wong is the registered director of Mandarin Dedham, Inc., which operates Asian restaurants Bamboo and Mandarin, each with locations throughout Massachusetts.

The sale officially closed on July 14, according to the registry.

Assessed by the Town of Westborough at more than $2.4 million, the restaurant property located at 95 Turnpike Road is 10,468 square feet.

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The property was last sold in 2007 for $3 million to Bertucci’s Founder Joey Crugnale, who also owned the Naked Fish chain, located at this spot in Westborough, as well as in Waltham, Framingham, Billerica, and Lynnfield. 

The Westborough Naked Fish closed and was replaced by the Chateau in 2007. In a May 2020 article from the MetroWest Daily News, Chateau President Joe Nacero said the Westborough location would close after he was unable to negotiate an affordable lease with Crugnale in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.