Today the Eat Out department started hearing rumors that Andersonville stalwart La Donna is moving out of the neighborhood. (Apparently we weren’t the only ones who heard this rumor.)

"I got so frustrated with the parking," owner Antonella Barbanente told me over the phone. But parking is only one of the things that attracted her to the new space at 6340 N Clark (which she will move into in mid-November). There was also the patio seating—she wasn’t able to have a patio in Andersonville—and the fact that there’s nowhere near the amount of competition up there.

But the confirmation of this rumor only leads to more rumors—specifically, that Hopleaf will be moving into La Donna’s space. Both Barbanente and an unnamed source at Hopleaf confirmed that plans are in the works, but no deal has been signed yet.

Thanks to BlahGeeTsa for the tip.