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Restaurant notes: Sale in Old City

Rob LaScala has bought Paradigm and Dolce.

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Restaurant notes: Sale in Old City

POSTED: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 12:40 PM

Michael Klein, Philly.com

Filed Under: TableTalk

There's been a changing of the guard at the side-by-side Old City restau-lounges Dolce and Paradigm (239-241 Chestnut St.).

For now, they're operating as they were, but buyer Rob LaScala, who runs LaScala at Seventh and Chestnut Streets, says he will simply change the menu at Dolce and -- by the summer -- close Paradigm and reconceptualize it.

The new incarnation will include Paradigm's signature restroom doors, which fog up when you lock the door (or provide a floor show if you don't). Founder David Ciurlino is moving on.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:59 PM, 01/18/2011

Doesn't "reconceptualize" require an object to be grammatically correct?

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:31 AM, 01/19/2011

It's about time. Both these places are empty for dinner. Occasionally you get a bar crowd that looks more like a rap record release party than anything else.

Not a good crowd and more times than not they have more people working than eating.

— PHL Insight

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