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Capogiro's Stephanie Reitano wants to make you breakfast. No, not pork roll-flavored gelato (ooh): She and husband John are in the very early stages of opening a small restaurant that'll serve hot food.
The couple is currently constructing a large-scale wholesale production kitchen in the Falls Center (3300 Henry Ave.), the former location of the Women's Medical College that's now a big-budget multi-purpose residental/commercial complex. (The kitchen should be ready by the end of 2008.) On the grounds, there's a free-standing structure that was originally used as a stable; it once housed a café. This'll be the home of the Reitanos' as-yet-unnamed breakfast and lunch spot. "It will definitely serve Capogiro gelato, but will [also] have a hot kitchen serving fresh, simple, delicious food," Stephanie says. "The concept is not completely baked." URBANSPACEDEVELOPMENT, the firm responsible for crafting Cap's two Center City gelaterias, is handling design for both facets of the East Falls-based project.
This is all in addition to the third café location going into the Radian Buidling at 39th and Walnut.
Timeline, timeline, timeline: Unclear right now. Reitano says she's met opposition from the Philadelphia Commercial Development Corporation in regards to funding a percentage of the project. Come on with it, PCDC. An omelette or a sandwich or a frittata-y innovation directly followed by pistachio gelato plopped atop toasted brioche? Recession-proof.
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