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Le Cochon Noir is Le Coming Along
We first told you about Le Cochon Noir, the BBQ/live music venue out by the Mann Center, last summer. Back then, owner Jamal M. Parker said he hoped to be finished with an outdoor-to-indoor expansion back the fall of 2009. Your typical Philly paperwork trip-ups knocked that back a bit, but Parker is now confident he'll have his 7,000-square-foot space ready to go before the end of June. UPDATE [26may10]: Here are Le Cochon Noir's menus. Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer // // ]]>
Le Cochon Noir is Le Coming Along
We first told you about Le Cochon Noir, the BBQ/live music venue out by the Mann Center, last summer. Back then, owner Jamal M. Parker said he hoped to be finished with an outdoor-to-indoor expansion back the fall of 2009. Your typical Philly paperwork trip-ups knocked that back a bit, but Parker is now confident he'll have his 7,000-square-foot space ready to go before the end of June. UPDATE [26may10]: Here are Le Cochon Noir's menus.
The outside of the venue (5070 Parkside Ave.), tucked into the demure Philadelphia Business and Technology Center, is unassuming — but it doesn't take long to realize just how ambitious of a project it really is. Le Cochon Noir started as an outdoor-only venue with an auxiliary kitchen on the grassy area outside the Center, but now that it's got this address, the plan is to turn it into a premier spot for live jazz, blues and foreal-foreal barbecue-influenced fare. (The restaurant is about 5 minutes off the Girard exit on 76.)
The high-ceilinged warehouse space features table and booth seating and a 22-foot stage with custom lighting and sound systems; Parker will book locally during the week and seek out national names on weekend nights. There's an in-the-works triangular bar that'll eventually feature sliding garage door access to the outside, where there'll be a stage featuring Caribbean steel-drum performances. Parker is also planning an elevated, glass-enclosed 2,600-bottle wine storage unit so large it'll actually be able to accommodate a 15- to 20-person table that can be used for tastings.
A massive open kitchen boasts a bestial Southern Pride smoker that chef Christopher Maguire — he's earned tons of BBQ accolades in the annual Tom Monaghan and Garry Maddox cook-offs — will use to prep his dry-rubbed meats (it can handle as many as 100 racks of ribs in a single sitting). The menu's still being finalized, but Parker has built up a rapport with a farmer in upstate Pennsylvania that'll provide Le Cochon Noir with its namesake — high-end Berkshire pork they'll serve as French-cut chops. The menu will also feature Southern-influenced grub, high-end seafood (think Dover sole and Scottish salmon) and organic-chocolate desserts. A chef's table off to one side of the stage will be available for customized five-course tastings
Parker got his start in restaurants in Philly — in the early days he bussed tables at Downey's and later managed Baci Bistro, which is now Italian Bistro, at 211 S. Broad. He was most recently general sales manager at Clear Channel Radio, working with Power 99, Q102 and Radio 104.5. Before radio, he spent close to a decade in Las Vegas as a director of restaurant operations and labor relations manager for Bally's Casino.
This is just what Philly has been needing for an extremely long time, bring on a fresh venue with a worldwide appeal and a touch of class
BBQ and jazz--that's genius! Also, I love the cool-looking vibe of the space.
Myself and all of the other local music artists are hoping for the continued success of this great venue and of course, for more work. CONGRATULATIONS JAMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ella Gahnt & Leon Mitchell
A place with space to chill, with good music and good food. Refreshing and long overdue! Best, Nina
[...] “light fare” menus for Jamal Parker’s Le Cochon Noir (5070 Parkside Ave.), the restaurant and music venue we featured a week back. They’ll start serving pig in soft-open mode next Friday, June [...]
***JUST ANNOUNCED*** Beyonce Knowles' Trumpet player, Crystal Torres, performing live at Le Cochon Noir Sat., Jun 5th.
We've hungered for a jazz club since the original Zanzibar Blue went upscale, and then bust. Borgia, Jewel's and Trey's just memories now, and even Ortlieb's gone away... what a find Le Cochon Noir is!!! If you love your jazz sacred, and don't mind a great meal into the bargain, Cochon Noir is the place for you. The West Parkside location is central, easy to find and even offers free on-site parking steps from the front door. Jamal treats his customers like royalty. Liz (our server) was upbeat and professional, watched over us and never imposed. $164 for a GREAT meal for four adults, plus 90 minutes of pure, inspired playing from 5 distinctive soloists - who could ask for anything more? Le Cochon Noir is Jazz Paradise. And the food is a very, very close second.
Wonderful place! I spent my 26th Birthday there with my better half and we enjoyed ourselves to the fullest. Each course was excellent and the service was amazing. Can't wait to go back!! I plan to become a bi-weekly customer!
Amazing that you leave out Chris' Jazz Cafe and Time Midtown, both on Sansom one block in from Broad Street East & West. Best food and jazz combo I have experienced in Philly for a long time! I liked Le Cochon Noir, but for a center city patron, tis is just too far off my beaten track to visit again....maybe once or twice a year if I get a ride! Wish Le Cochon Noir was in center city and not out on Parkside.
Glad your in parkside! A huge treat folks that don't live in center city. Keep it going!
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