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Monsu in pictures

POSTED: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 8:00 PM

Filed Under: Menu Time | Openings | Photos

Photo | Drew Lazor

As we told you on Monday, the Paesano's location at Ninth and Christian now goes by the name MonsÃº, as partners Peter McAndrews and Nathan Baynes have converted the sandwich shop into a Sicilian BYOB. (Paesano's has moved down the block to 1017 S. Ninth and will be opening sometime next week.) We stopped by last night and were quickly engulfed by the amazing fam/friends mob scene that ended up with us standing by the service station and sharing sporadically materializing plates of food with friendly strangers (shoutout to bartender Joe from Rembrandt's!). Everything was straight-up delicious, and we even managed to rattle off a few photos, which you can peep after the jump. Here's chef Damien Messina's opening menu (PDF). Though everyone in Philly is freaked about THUNDERSNOW right now, Baynes says they'll run their first official dinner service from 5 to 10 this evening as originally planned. It's actually snowed on the inaugural night of each space he and McAndrews have opened over the past few years â Modo Mio, the original Paesano's, the Italian Market Paesano's, and now this â so they now consider it buona fortuna.

Photos | Drew Lazor

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