Justin’s Grill at Carrier Circle will close in February following a dispute with the restaurant’s landlord, according to one of the restaurant’s owners, Neal Pascale.

The Pascale family will continue to operate Pascale Italian Bistro at Drumlins, which can also host banquets. Justin’s staff is working with banquet customers to either move their events to the Drumlins Country Club location or find another location, Pascale said in an email. The Drumlins location has two separate banquet rooms, according to the Bistro’s website. The ballroom can seat up to 600.

“All deposits will be honored,” Pascale wrote in an email this morning. “We have been in the restaurant business over 35 years and will continue at Drumlins. We will also honor all payables to all vendors. We are departing in as a professional manner as when we started there 18 years ago.”

On Friday, Pascale said Justin’s was open for catering and banquets only. Brothers Neal and Chuck Pascale own the restaurant and banquet facility at 6400 Yorktown Circle, DeWitt, N.Y.

During its nearly two decades, the restaurant was known first as a steakhouse, then for its Tuscan-style Italian menu and more recently for contemporary American cuisine. The Pascales first opened Justin’s in 2000. They bought the building at 6400 Yorktown Circle from Fred Grimaldi, whose G is still etched in the glass near the dining room. The restaurant is named after Justin Wright, a chef and the Pascale brothers' long-time partner. He died in 2016.

Today, the owner of the building is listed as NCJB Restaurant LLC, according to Onondaga County tax records. It was not immediately clear who the owners of the LLC are, or what the landlord dispute involves.

“After consulting our attorney regarding the potential legal action we have decided to close Justin's Grill,” Neal Pascale wrote today in response to questions. “We have tried unsuccessfully for several months to settle our dispute with our landlord.”

Neal and Chuck Pascale first opened Pascale Restaurant on Hawley Green in 1982. Since then, they’ve had restaurants in downtown Syracuse and Fayetteville. They also currently own Pascale’s Liquor near Liverpool and Liquor Square in DeWitt.