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Girasole opens Wednesday
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Girasole opens Wednesday
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| Photos | Drew Lazor | |
According to manager Michele Iovino, March 18 will mark the official Philly reopening of Girasole, which called 1305 Locust home for 16 years. (That space is now Camac.) Now nestled on the Pine Street side of Symphony House (440 S. Broad St., 215-732-2728), the restaurant's original location closed in 2004.
Owners/brothers Gino and Franco Iovino (Michele's dad) run another Girasole in Atlantic City, but this branch has more of a boutique-y feel, with around 45 seats (bar, banquette and tables), a copper, bronze and black color scheme, oversize bistro mirrors and a big painting of their signature sunflowers. The bar and wine rack should clue you in that they've working with a liquor license.
On the menu, they're touting their carpaccios (tonno, yellow fin with sun-dried tomato, scallion, black olives and balsamic; spigola, Italian sea bass with citrus and capers) and homemade pastas (gnocchi, chittara, tagliatelle) as signatures. The old Girasole was a huge pre-theater destination, so they'll keep that going here with a $35 three-course prix fixe from Sunday to Friday.
They'll be open for lunch Mon.-Fri., 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and open for dinner Mon.-Fri., Sun., 5-11 p.m.; Sat., 5 p.m.-mid.
Girasole in Atlantic City is one of the best italian restaurants at the Jersey Shore. Can't wait to try the new one in Philly.
[...] Girasole is set to open Wednesday. Meal Ticket has some photos of the Italian spot at Broad and Pine. [Meal Ticket] [...]
I had dinner at Girasole last week and it was better than I expected with wonderful food,service and ambiance will definitely return.
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