Peter Serpico

Serpico Is Finalizing Staff, Opening Is “Just Weeks Away”

Posted by Foobooz on April 12th, 2013

Menu testing for Serpico | Copes corn ravioli, pickled and roasted pearl onions, chilies, and chorizo

The highly anticipated Serpico is in the home stretch. But Peter Serpico is still looking for a few key players, including a junior sous chef. Serpico has filled other positions at the restaurant including chef de cuisine. Anne Strong, who worked with Serpico at Momofuku Ko in New York has come down to Philadelphia to fill that role. Strong graduated from Penn State and had a career in the publishing industry before she began going to culinary school at night at the Institute of Culinary Education. She has also worked at New York’s Anthos and The Modern. Another New York transplant is Rich Fell, who has come down to be Serpico’s general manager.

A local face will also be in the kitchen. Jae Hee Cho, former sous chef at Stateside, under George Sabatino is also on the staff.

As for the opening date, the job ad says Serpico “is only a few weeks away from opening.”

SERPICO is opening soon!! Only a few open positions left [Foobooz Jobs]

Serpico On Serpico: Some News On His Forthcoming Restaurant

Posted by Jason Sheehan on February 22nd, 2013

Hey, check it out! Some asshole New York writer made the long trek to the wilds of Philadelphia to check out the Peter Serpico/Chris Painter collaboration dinner at Il Pittore and get an interview with Serpico–in which he behaved like an asshole New Yorker.

If you can get past all the references to us being a bunch of dimwitted, white bread, big-box-restaurant-loving yokels with our mouths stuffed full of Buddakan potstickers, there’s actually some interesting stuff in there about what Serpico has planned for the new restaurant.

Read on…

Serpico’s Second Act [Bon Appetit]

Peter Serpico at Il Pittore

Posted by Jason Sheehan on February 21st, 2013

We dispatched photographer Kate Van Vleck to Il Pittore on Tuesday night to snap some shots of the Peter Serpico, Chris Painter collaboration dinner at Il Pittore. For those of you who don’t recall the hysteria that attended the announcement in September that Stephen Starr had apparently sold another piece of his soul to the devil in order to woo David Chang’s right-hand-man, Peter Serpico, away from his position in the Momofuku empire, let me assure you that it was a very big deal. Funny thing is, September was a long time ago, and since the announcement Serpico hasn’t really done…anything. Or at least nothing that really had his name attached to it.

This Painter/Serpico mashup at Il Pittore was really Serpico’s first public appearance in Philly. His coming out party, as it were. And from the looks of things, it went pretty well.

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Gastronaut: New York State of Mind

Posted by Jason Sheehan on December 6th, 2012

Philly has been luring Manhattanites away from the Big Apple for years. Now we’re taking its chefs—and concepts—as well.

For decades, Manhattan has been a kind of protected game preserve for chefs and foodies, a rarified environment where restaurateurs with big names could lure in enough of the monied trade to make the cripplingly high rents and off-the-charts food costs work with $300 tasting menus and $18 cheeseburgers. And because the biggest names in the game opened there, the best crews flocked to them. The best suppliers. It was a system that worked only because every piece of it depended on the willing suspension of all good sense, and a kind of universal acceptance by the people of Manhattan that they were living (and dining) in the greatest food city on earth.

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More on Peter Serpico

Posted by Foobooz on September 17th, 2012

Stephen Starr is bringing Peter Serpico, the former chef of Momofuku Ko and David Chang’s culinary director to Philadelphia to open his own restaurant, Serpico. But perhaps you’re not that up to date on the Momofuku phenomenon. Here are some must-read pieces on David Chang and Peter Serpico.

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Momofuku’s Peter Serpico Opening in Philadelphia

Posted by Foobooz on September 15th, 2012

So that bombshell Michael Klein promised us for the weekend? It is that Peter Serpico, the former culinary director in David Chang’s Momofuku empire is coming to Philadelphia. Craig LaBan spills the details; Stephen Starr is bringing the New Yorker to Philadelphia and 604 South Street (the former Foot Locker) to open Serpico, a 52-seat open kitchen restaurant. Expect the vibe and menu to be similar of the hugely popular Momofuku.

In addition to being the culinary director in the Momofuku empire, Serpico was the opening chef at Momofuku Ko which won the 2009 James Beard award for Best New Restaurant and has been awarded two Michelin stars.

This is the second success in what we’re calling Stephen Starr’s producing days. The music-lover has long list of restaurant hits, but with collaborations with Brooklyn’s Fette Sau and now Serpico, it makes us think he’s in his, producing phase, combining with others to create hits.

Fall Arts Preview: Dining [Philadelphia Inquirer]

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