Fire starts at Luca Restaurant in Stony Brook

Fire starts at Luca Restaurant in Stony Brook

Luca Restaurant in Stony Brook Village. Photo by Sabrina Artusa

At 2:30 a.m. Thursday, January 23 a fire started at Luca, a popular restaurant in Stony Brook.

Luca remains closed on Jan. 29, six days after the fire. Photo by Sabrina Artusa

The fire was in the back of the restaurant in the kitchen and did not spread to neighboring stores.

“We are trying to assess the damage, but it seems it was contained in the kitchen,” Gloria Rocchio said, president of the Ward Melville Heritage Organization (WMHO), a non-profit that owns the Stony Brook Village Center where the restaurant is located. 

Six different fire departments responded to the fire,  Rocchio said. 

The building is owned by Eagle Realty Holdings inc., a subsidiary of the WMHO. 

Over two years ago, a fire was reported outside Luca, between the restaurant and the neighboring Camera Concepts and Telescope Solutions. A fire had started in a laundry bin outside the stores. 

 The buildings in the Stony Brook Village Center share a cockloft, or a shared attic. Due to this, a fire could potentially spread at a faster rate between buildings.

Luca opened in 2022.

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