Pod, Restaurant by Stephen Starr, ended after around 25 years in Philly


PodThe Futuristic Futuristic University of the University of Stephen Starr, closes before the 25th anniversary. the Interact with Philadelphia First reported The news confirmed at the University of Pennsylvania, the owner of the restaurant, where the campus was seated. Resy reservations are not available after February 22.

In the Pod opening in 2000, it was a similar place to know for the ages of the dining room designed by rockwell's well-equipped group, which Starr was working in many efforts. The room shown in a sushi conveyor belt and booths placed within pods with interactive lights can be changed to the preachers. Eventually, it flips to be a menu that is a wide range of mass. Starr redesigned the restaurant on its 20th anniversary, flipping to KPOD, and serving Korean food. However, it never finds its feet. However it did not turn flips.

“If we reopened the space as Kpod in 2022, our customers kept asking us, 'Where is Sushi?'” Starr told the eater at 2024. “So we listened to them and moved the space of his original beloved concept, a Japanese restaurant and Izakaya, but this time with a small twist.”

To change the restaurant, it has made homages in the original recovery, focus on larger parts and return to more college color changes. But it never returns to the first design: “We said to the retro-modern space agreed with ceilings contemporary, ceilings naturally, and warm lights,” Starr told the eater.

At first pod opened, it was the third restaurant of Philly Starr following Continental in Old City (closed 2020), and Buddakan. the Shreddam reports that the pod acts as an incubator of types. This is a site where some of the city's first chefs work in their races, including Michael Schulson who keeps opening New York on buddingakan before returning to Philly.

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