Another Center City restaurant headed to Main Line
This time it's Pietro's, the coal-oven pizzeria, and its Greek sibling, Estia.
Another Center City restaurant headed to Main Line
Michael Klein, Philly.com
Center City restaurateurs Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook opened a venture, Citron & Rose, last year in Merion Station. So did Michael Schulson and Rob Wasserman, when they opened The Saint James in Ardmore.
Now I'll tell you about a third Center City operation joining the fray in Lower Merion Township.
Nick Pashalis, who co-owns the luxe Estia and the casual Pietro's Coal-Oven Pizzeria, said he would fill the barnlike space on Lancaster Avenue in Wynnewood that until very recently was a Buca di Beppo. It previously was a Vinny T's of Boston; old-timers will remember it as the very first Eric movie theater.
This project is at least a year out, Pashalis said, and would divide the 7,200 square feet into a Pietro's and a new, more casual Estia offshoot called Estia Taverna.
More immediately, Pashalis said, in six months, the Pietro's in Marlton will become an Estia Taverna.
it is no longer safe to be in business within the city, granted crime can travel to anywhere but it might detur them a bit more— eddiot- Uh, you realize they aren't closing their Center City businesses, but just expanding, right? Reading comprehension people.— twogirls
- Keep your Center City restaurants in town if it's going to be anything like "The Saint James" We need competent restaurants in the "burbs" not your second-hand offerings.
— phlyersfan - Since the earliest days of the colony of Pennsylvania, the pendulum has always swung back and forth between building up restaurants (ye old Taverns) in the city and in the suburubs. It has nothing to do with crime. It has more to do with restaurant-market saturations, restaurant pricings, access to approximate parking and the price of parking. Oh, prices per level of product quality; safe parking; and the cost of parking... well maybe it does have to do with crime. But it is still a pendulum of popularity until saturation. Remember when Manayunk was hot?— Sherwood Forest
- "Center City restaurateurs Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook opened a venture, Citron & Rose, last year in Merion Station".
Actually not: see, www.yelp.com/biz/citron-and-rose-narberth
370 Montgomery Ave Narberth, PA 19066
— Hector - Actually not. The zip is 19066, which is Merion Station. Narberth is 19078. Thanks. — Michael Klein
- i dont care what either of you say. i'm calling that bala cynwyd! — NipseyRussell
- One flash-mob too many.— orange rhino
- no restaurants are closing up and moving to the suburbs. a restaurateur is expanding their portfolio to the suburbs. the article isn't that long or too hard to comprehend.— PHL_CC
- @Sherwood---Ben Franklin wrote about the problem of adequate parking for horses at countryside taverns. He called it "more wretched than the innkeeper's daughters."— orange rhino
- Is Allen Iverson coming back to Center City with his clique?— joedog
- Eh, why bother arguing with the bitter Philly haters on Philly.com boards.— Timmy
- Taxes, taxes,taxes.— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
- the suburban market is less competitive than the city market. it's actually several times more expensive to open a bar in the suburbs than the city (any establishment with a liquor license) so it seems unlikely that taxes are the motivator.— dreinterests
- Of course, WVH doesn't care about the facts. He just has to regurgitate his Faux Nooz bile all day. — Tatt2
