These spaces are bite-sized, but food and drinks are full of flavor

The interior at The Diner on Clifton, located at 11637 Clifton Blvd. in Cleveland.

(Lisa DeJong, The Plain Dealer)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Diner on Clifton, long an institution near the Cleveland-Lakewood border, will move by sometime this summer.

Owner Perry Drosos told a Cleveland television station that his restaurant's new location will be in the old PNC Bank Building at 11500 Clifton Blvd.

Last week Drosos announced that the location he has operated for nearly 30 years - 17 of them as The Diner on Clifton - at would close on Monday, Feb. 29. Drosos says the closing has been tabled while he and landlord Constantine Katsoros continue to negotiate a short-term agreement to remain open.

Drosos has operated The Diner on Clifton, 11637 Clifton Blvd. for nearly a decade without a signed lease.

Katsoros has said that a "long overdue" renovation of the entire building precludes the business remaining in operation.

"The revamping, which involves remodeling the building's facade, is going to go into the summer months," Katsoros said during an interview after Drosos initial announcement his restaurant would be closing.