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| Courtesy of DIE Creative |
Meal Ticket touched base with Jen Kremer, who, along with Cescaphe Ballroom owner Joe Volpe, plans on opening the café and wine/whiskey bar Cooperage in the Curtis Center (601-45 Walnut St.) in about a month's time.
A native of North Carolina, Kremer was last the sommelier at Parc; she got involved with the Curtis Center through her work with Cescaphe, which handles catering for events in developer Joe Grasso's massive city-block complex. The space, a coffee shop by day and bar by night, will be situated at the corner of Seventh and Sansom, but for access guests will enter the Curtis on Seventh Street. Cooperage is the art of barrel-making, and the interior, designed by DIE Creative (they did all the Piazza's restaurants) will reflect as much, with lots of lovely wood. The bar will accommodate around 30, with an additional 50 at tables; come warmer weather, they'll have outdoor seating, too.
Kremer describes the beverage approach of Cooperage as "rustic cowboy meets chic wine drinker" — they'll do 20 wines, all of them available by both the glass and the bottle. All local drafts. Full bar, with a few specialty cocktails, but the emphasis spirits-wise will most definitely be whiskies, many of them rare/boutique. "There are 2,000 people who work in the building, and 1,200 in the sister building [the Public Ledger at 600 Chestnut]," says Kremer. "We want to get everybody in there in the morning for the café, grab and go, and hopefully they'll come back for a bourbon in the evening."
Chef Ralph Kane (Field House) will be running Cooperage's kitchen, with Cescaphe chef Justin Weathers overseeing. Check out a sample menu below. Some of the dishes were inspired by Kremer's Southern roots.
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what an unispiring menu. seems like bits and pieces of 5 or 6 gastropub menus from philly Pricing is odd too Biscuits, ham, marscapone cheese is $14?? but Colorado lamb is $17 Am I missing something?
I work around the corner and can not wait for this place to open. The menu looks great and home cooked. I am especially looking forward to those Nachos!!
[...] Meal Ticket has more details including an early look at the menu at Cooperage, the wine bar coming this April to the Curtis Center. [Meal Ticket] [...]
Looking forward to the grand opening of Cooperage Restraunt in the Curtis Center.If the food is anything like Cescaphe Ballroom// Curtis Center. The people who work in an around the Curtis Center are really going to enjoy this new Restraunt. Michael Volpe
Been watching the development of the construction ! Starting to look good, menu pretty cool to it's now in the window. Hurry up !
looking forward to the whiskey bit. Menu is completely dull. A menu can be familiar and NOT dull, this is bland, but this is what happens when catering people open restaurants. good to see the space being fixed up, someone will come along and leverage what these people are doing. This place will be something different in 18 - 24 months - I gaurantee it.
In referance to the menue don't knock it until you try it. I'm sure the food will be FANTASTIC!!!! One Eye!!
I agree with the Daytime Drinker about the dull menu great for breakfast maybe but dinner noway. You want whiskey go to the Village Whiskey (Jose Garces) Real Chef and Creative for that matter. Yeah "Hippie Chop" Colorado Lamb and biscuits ham and cheese. Forget it. Will they be serving catering leftovers?
can someone in this business bring someting to Philly that we dont already have???? Copycat.
Hey Michael Volpe any relation to the owner? Its spelled MENU and I doubt it will be the same as the other places.. I have been to 2 weddings at the Curtis Center and 1 at the Cescaphe and the Curtis center both times the entree were ICE cold and a at Cescaphe the Seafood was not on ice just laying out not very healthy so I cant imagine this place will be any better
As someone who has worked in restaurants & the industry for more than 10 years; [with both celebrity chefs and newbies] and eaten in a wide spectrum of establishments in major cities from east coast to west I have just a few things to say. Don't form an opinion until you have a dining experience to base it on, you might contradict yourself once you eat there. Also someone who posts their name as 'Perca Set' most likely has an issue with prescription drugs, and those sorts of addicts often have screwed up perceptions....
After looking at the new menu which has a pork chop for 24 dollars is a joke if I'm spending that much i might as well go somewhere else. As I'm a working in the Curtis Center most of my office has already deemed this place off the list of places to eat.
Please, don't go GUCCI. We have enough steakhouses hangin on by a thread in this town. Take a cue from Vintage and go afforable so that the working folks in the building can afford a glass of wine and after work snack. You'll do better by making it affordable than thinking Philly's food revival equals London prices.
I was there on the first night and loved the scallops--priced reasonably like at any city restaurant. Beer at 4 or 5 dollars might be OK--it will be tough to compete with the Vegas around the corner on price, absent a happy hour designed for people in the building, but at the Vegas you can't hear yourself think. On quality of almost any kind, the Vegas is no match, so the building's higher-end tenants may finally have a home. Morning: coffee is reasonable at about 2 dollars. Fridge items seem overpriced for grab-and-go, but maybe people in the building will be willing to pay a couple dollars extra for the super convenience. Menu is sufficiently different from the "deli" (in the building 50 yards away) that there won't be too much competition item-by-item.
[...] Yesterday, Meal Ticket dropped by the quiet opening night of Cooperage, on the Seventh Street side of the Curtis Center. (First mentioned the project back in March.) [...]
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