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Zavino group expanding to Main Line and D.C.

Work will start this spring on a Bryn Mawr project, and in June for a "Tredici-esque" restaurant near DuPont Circle.

Greg Dodge and crew are headed to the Main Line this summer for a third location of Zavino, their casual Italian pizza/wine bar. They also are setting up a restaurant in Washington, D.C., that will resemble their more recent Washington Square West opening, the more refined Tredici.

Dodge said work would begin in May for the third Zavino, which will join future tenants La Colombe and Bryn & Dane's at Bryn Mawr Village in an existing building on the site, on Lancaster Avenue just west of Merion Avenue. (The Philadelphia Business Journal detailed Zavino's expansion earlier this week.)

At 5,000 square feet, this Zavino location will be larger than the original at 13th and Sansom Streets and the offshoot in Chestnut Square on the Drexel campus. Dodge said it would feel even more spacious because the building - a former truck garage - has 23-foot ceilings with no columns. Live trees will grow inside, as skylights are being punched in the roof.

He said he hoped the restaurant would open in September.

Dodge described that restaurant as "more Tredici-esque." Work is due to begin in June and wrap this fall.

(Coincidence: Fifteen years ago, Dodge was general manager of Pod while the chef was Michael Schulson, who now owns Sampan and now Double Knot on the same stretch of 13th Street as Zavino and Tredici.)