Kid Shelleen's Charcoal House & Saloon in Wilmington is taking a three-week pause after this weekend and temporarily will close down for repairs and maintenance.

Owner Xavier Teixido said takeout service for Kid Shelleen's, a staple of the city's Trolley Square neighborhood since 1984, will shift on Monday to his other restaurant, Harry's Savoy Grill at 2020 Naamans Road in Brandywine Hundred.

Dishes from Kid Shelleen's "classic" menu can be purchased there as takeout from April 20 through May 11. The menu includes Shelleen's wings, nachos, salads, sandwiches and burgers.

Teixido said the short-term shutdown of Shelleen's is for some minor spruce-ups. "Unfortunately, we didn’t have the lead time for major renovations."

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He said the move to all takeout at Harry's Savoy Grill also is "a good opportunity to see how north Wilmington responds to this little teaser for the new Kid Shelleen’s."

Teixido and his business partner Kelly O'Hanlon are planning a second Kid Shelleen's location. They are leasing space from Capano Management for the new restaurant in the Branmar Plaza shopping center at the intersection of Marsh and Silverside roads.

The new restaurant will be about 5,000 square feet. The opening is scheduled for sometime in 2021.

Teixido was one of the original owners of Kid Shelleen's. He left the restaurant, named after a Lee Marvin character from the 1965 comic western “Cat Ballou,” in 1993 when he and his former partner Davis Sezna parted ways.

Teixido, along with O'Hanlon, repurchased the city establishment at 14th and Scott streets in 2010.

The restaurant, like many in the state, has had to pivot its business model since the coronavirus pandemic has greatly changed the way restaurants have been operating.

In Delaware, the state's more than 1,900 drinking and eating establishment were ordered by Gov. John Carney to stop dine-in services a month ago. Restaurants and food shops are only allowed to offer takeout and delivery.

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It is not yet known when the Delaware restaurants can resume dining-in practices, and that lack of information has Teixido worried about the future of the restaurant industry.

"We still have not received any guidance on how or when restaurants will be allowed to reopen. The longer this goes, the less will be able to open again," he said.

Contact Patricia Talorico at (302) 324-2861 or ptalorico@delawareonline.com and on Twitter @pattytalorico