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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Snow White going to sleep
The Snow White will be gutted, and a second floor plus roof deck will be added.

The Snow White, which started at the corner of Second and Market Streets in Old City before World War II, will have its last call after service on Easter Sunday.

Restaurateur Luca Sena is working with a partner on a plan to gut the long-running greasy spoon and add a second floor/roof deck. The concept will be Italian American diner.

Among the names he's tossing around is Revolution.

It will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner (plus cocktails), as well as offer a serious Neapolitan pizza program. Sena says he's using Pizzeria Stella as a baseline but says he'll do better.

He wouldn't give a timetable for construction.

Sena says at one time, brothers owned diners on both sides of Second Street: the Continental (which in 1995 was converted into the Stephen Starr martini bar of the same name) and the Snow White.
Posted by Michael Klein @ 5:28 PM  Permalink | File Under: TableTalk | Openings | 9 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:17 PM, 03/25/2010
    "A serious Neapolitan pizza program?" I'm afraid.
    — JoanieS
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:25 PM, 03/25/2010
    I wondered how much longer it could last. I've been in that area for business a lot in the last few months and ate there 5 or 6 times. It's quick, but the food is not good. And, for what you get, it's overpriced. Any fast food place has better burgers and fries for half the price. And that's too bad; greasy spoons don't have to have bad food. Do we really need another pizza place in Philly? Really?
    — Tatts
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:46 AM, 03/26/2010
    Great news. Luca Sena is a class act. It will enhance the neighborhood. No doubt about that.
    — NorthernLibertine
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:22 AM, 03/26/2010
    needs a better name
    — manzi
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:37 AM, 03/26/2010
    Sad to see Snow White go, but thrilled Sena is taking over.
    — Mh225
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:16 AM, 03/26/2010
    I find it ironic that they aren't doing anything original but simply trying to steal the thunder of Continental and Pizzeria Stella. Seems like a desperate attempt at trying to do something someone else took the time and effort to develop.
    — phillydude2010
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:04 PM, 03/28/2010
    Sorry to see it go --- was a slice of old-time old city.
    — maude
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:12 PM, 07/06/2010
    Fish Taco,s
    — Ed Sullivan


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Michael Klein, the editor/producer of philly.com/Food, writes about the local restaurant scene in his Inquirer column "Table Talk." Have a question? Email it! See his Inquirer work here.
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