HOT RESCUE FROM THE BRINK: Bella Luna Restaurant and The Milky Way Lounge

After the public was jolted by a scare that it would disappear forever when the landlord raised the rent, JP’s Bella Luna and Milky Way Lounge & Lanes, a Centre Street landmark in most hipsters’ minds, relocated to slick new digs in the Brewery Complex and opened its doors as Bella Luna Restaurant & The Milky Way Lounge (284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain, 617.524.3740) in late April. Sadly, the so-kitschy-they’re-fabulous bowling lanes were left behind, but we hear that competitive types will be able to go head to head with free Wii bowling nights. And there are DJs or live musicians nearly every night in the Milky Way section of the space. Regulars may miss the live-band karaoke (which, we hear, could possibly make a comeback one of these days), but everything else is intact — and sometimes even improved. There’s room for more diners than before, and that’s without counting the patio, which can seat about 35 and is slated to open in early August. And the meandering bar is more than double the size of the one back in the subterranean pad. The signature lighting fixtures with star-cutout shades grace the new space with cosmic luminosity, and you’ll still find the gourmet but down-to-earth pizzas on the bigger and better menu. Folks in the neighborhood and beyond are over the moon.