Starr and Vetri to be neighbors
They're opening restaurants side by side on North Broad Street.
Starr and Vetri to be neighbors
Michael Klein, Philly.com
In a rare display of power-dining synergy, restaurateurs Marc Vetri and Stephen Starr will set up side-by-side restaurants in the former Wilkie Buick/Subaru showroom at 600 N. Broad St., two blocks north of Spring Garden Street.
Also part of the project is caterer Joe Volpe, whose empire includes Cescaphe Ballroom in Northern Liberties, the Curtis Center on Washington Square, and the forthcoming Tendenza, another Northern Liberties venue.
Vetri's place, Birreria 600, will be an Italian bar -- intended to be much more casual than Osteria, which is just a little way up the block at 640 N. Broad St. Vetri will be partnered with Jeff Benjamin and Jeff Michaud, his Osteria team. (This piece of the deal was mentioned Monday at Phillymag.com.)
Starr and his partners are planning a casual New England fish house with a wood grill and picnic-style seating called Route 6. It's named after the slow road traversing Cape Cod.
Birreria 600 will be on the Mount Vernon Street side, midblock. Route 6 will be on the corner of Broad and Mount Vernon. Volpe's unnamed space will be on the south end of the property. All are about a year away.
Developer Eric Blumenfeld owns both 600 and 640 N. Broad.
Where are all these upscale diners supposed to be coming from in this Obama depressed economy? Unless maybe all the DROP workers and the PHA directors are enough to fill all the new "hot" spots?— teckie- Haha, yes, Obama is to blame. He is inaugurated when the country is on the brink of a second great depression, but it's his fault.
— Jim C. - First of all "Teckie" this depression began WAY before Obama was even sworn in. We are living in the aftermath of the Republican idiot presidency that he never really won. And, the rich republicans are still rich enough to eat at these places since they pay no taxes under the Bush plan and won't until Obama fixes it. Quit blaming Obama! Sounds to me like you are a middle or lower class democrat, hit hard by the economy and recession like me. The difference is, I know who's behind it and it isn't Obama. Were all you haters born yesterday?? Can't you rembember events in the actual order they occurred? Or is Obama your scape goat for everything just because he is black.— Mlowe
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