Pigall’s to reopen as Twist

by julie on April 9, 2009

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The new restaurant will be called.. Twist Lounge and Restaurant. I guess they’re going to tear down a wall (!) and unite the two? I’ll be interested to see how this plays out.

Polly reports that:

the Co-executive chefs will be Mark Bodenstein, who was a co-owner of NuVo in Newport, and Christopher Burns, executive chef at Jean-Ro Bistro. Its focus will be the creative use of local foods, at a moderate price point.

… isn’t that what Lavomatic does?

I’ll be interested to see how it plays out. And they’d better not change their drink menu!

Tagged as: relish restaurant group, twist

CincyCapell

You have got to be kidding me.

The guy who is in charge of Jeanro, and has driven the cuisine there into the ground, is going to be running the new restaurant?? What a joke. The food at Jeanro is horrid. Awful. Pathetic. What a complete disaster. Seriously, has anyone eaten at Jeanro recently? It’s pathetically bad, they cannot cook the simplest of dishes competently. And the crowds have stopped coming in as well.

Twist Restaurant will have a shorter life than the Edgecliff had. Wade is clearly rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and it’s only a matter of time until all of his restaurants close. Wade is an accountant and a failed lawyer who fancies himself as some type of ‘restaurateur’, presumably because his Wife owns the Food Network (they won’t let Martin anywhere near it), and because he eats out a lot. What a joke.

Here are my picks on the order that the Relish restaurants will close. This is the Official Relish Group Death Watch List, and it’s a race to the bottom folks:

1. Edgecliff (as I predicted weeks ago, and it has closed)
2. Greenup (on life support, no longer open for dinner)
3. Jeanro (What happened to the crowds? The food is lousy BTW)
4. Chalk (Little business. Manager fired last week. Deck chairs being busily rearranged.)
5. Lavomatic
6. Twist
JTM

While I’m no fan of Martin Wade I keep hearing over and over that his wife “owns” the Food Network.

Food Network is owned by Scripps and Tribune. Marilyn Scripps-Wade is certainly part of that structure but to say that she “owns” the Food Network is, I feel, a little disingenuous.
http://5chw4r7z.com 5chw4r7z

That’s all the rage these days, locally sourced food.
LMAO don’t hold back CincyCapell tell us how you really feel!
I have to agree with you, although the service was still good at the Greenup, the food quality had slipped.
http://gourmetorgourmand.blogspot.com Lesley

AH! No no no. Terrible terrible. I agree with cincycappell on this one.

I teach college French and at the end of every year I bring my students to Jean Ro. Last year, I recall thinking “berk”…it wasn’t so great. I ate dinner there with a friend in August and when I told the waiter that a dish was way too bitter, he said ” Well the people behiind you are foodies and they love it.” Um, he didn’t know if I was Polly Campbell doing a review. Idiot. Anyway, this year, I’ll be taking my class to La Petite France. It’s not as good as Jean Ro was in its heydey, but it’s good, solid French food.

They can’t possibly be taking that chef and putting him in the same kitchen that Jean Robert de Cavel made famous with his art. Insanity. It’s almost amusing.
http://gourmetorgourmand.blogspot.com Lesley

Uh, Cincicappell…question: I just went and looked at polly campbell’s blog, and it seems that you have written here the EXACT words of a person who goes by CharlesFostrKane over on her blog. Say it isn’t so….