Rimedio

“Thank you for calling the future Rimedio…”

That’s what the answering machine at Rimedio (now living in the former West Philly home of Rx at 45th and Spruce) has been saying for a while now. But in a couple days, the new restaurant will have to change that message because, come Friday, Rimedio will be soft-opening under the command of Dan Freeman (ex of Bistro 7, and L’Oca).

Freeman will be doing modern Northern Italian cuisine in the newly re-habbed space. Think diver scallops over garlic fava beans, but touched with a hit of bacon foam and olive oil powder. Or risotto zafferano with butter-poached langoustines. He’s got house-made pasta on the board, a lamb shank with mustard greens and a black currant / lamb demi, hanger steak crusted with sourdough pretzels and served with black truffle oil.

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