RYE — The Ice House seasonal restaurant and ice cream shop is ending its 45-year run and won’t reopen after the 2025 season concludes.

Founders Kathy and Keith Malinowski and their family listed the property and restaurant for sale for $1.5 million and will permanently close the seafood and grill eatery in mid-October.

Meg Bishop, the Malinowskis' daughter, said she approached her parents about hanging up their aprons, and closing the business. Ice House employees, the majority of whom are college-aged, were notified weeks ago before heading back to school, prior to Tate & Foss Sotheby’s International Realty listing the property.

“This has been such a hard decision for my family,” Bishop said. “The biggest factor is that my parents are in their mid-70s. They deserve it. My paren

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