The Palace Theatre in downtown St. Paul is suing Wrecktangle Pizza over the short-lived Wrestaurant at the Palace, claiming that the Detroit-style pizza makers still owe the theater upwards of $1.6 million more than a year after their joint restaurant venture shut down.

Wrestaurant opened in early fall 2023 in the spot formerly home to Wild Tymes but quietly closed about a year later amid extensive water damage to its building, which had been purchased in early 2023 by now-troubled Madison Equities while restaurant plans were in the works.

First Avenue, which co-manages the Palace Theatre, opened a new restaurant called the Palace Pub in the location this summer. Unlike Wrestaurant, the Palace Pub is fully operated by First Avenue, operations director Marc Dickhut said at the time.

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