Ardé Osteria: Italian in Wayne
Ardé Osteria (133 N. Wayne Ave., Wayne, 484-580-6786) - opening Thursday, Oct. 2 across from the Wayne train station - will have not only wood-fired pizzas, but charcuterie and cheese plates served from a salumi and mozzarella bar, fresh-cut pastas, and entrees priced in the $20s. It's BYOB.
Pino DiMeo keeps ramping it up.
The Naples-born restaurateur started out nearly 25 years ago by opening standard-issue pizzerias. About three years ago, urged to go the Neapolitan route by his American-born son Antimo, Pino DiMeo and business partner Scott Stein opened Pizzeria DiMeo's in Andorra Shopping Center. They installed a brick oven and use better ingredients (buffalo mozz, San Marzano tomatoes) for Neapolitan pizzas.
Now, they've ventured out to the Main Line with something more refined.
Ardé Osteria (133 N. Wayne Ave., Wayne, 484-580-6786) - which opened Oct. 2 across from the Wayne train station - not only offers wood-fired pizzas, but charcuterie and cheese plates, fresh pastas, and entrees priced in the $20s. It's BYOB.
Atmosphere in the room is clean and contemporary, with subway tiles, old barn wood and large murals on the walls, and bare-topped wooden tables. The oven glows in the corner behind the open kitchen - hence the name of the restaurant, which translates as "burn," "blaze" or "glow."
For the year or so that Arde has been in the works, Antimo DiMeo was in Naples working for Gennaro Esposito at the two-Michelin-star La Torre Del Saracino.
Arde is open daily for lunch and dinner.
Lunch menu is here.
Dinner menu is here.