Hyde Park's brief taste of Colombian food over for now

Ricolombia Restaurant, 1231 River St., where Salamander Cafe used to be, and where a succession of Haitian restaurants used to be, quietly closed this week, barely four months after it opened.

Today, the windows were festooned with signs advising that it would be opening soon under new ownership.

Mercedes Pica had opened the neighborhood's first Colombian restaurant - which also offered some Italian dishes as well as some breakfast items such as bagels - a few months after she had closed Salamander Cafe, in the space where Cordon Bleu closed after problems with health inspectors and police.