Bardea coming to Chestnut Hill
Jay Caputo at the stove at the Chestnut Hill Hotel.
The Chestnut Hill Hotel - now undergoing a major spruce-up - has a tenant to fill the prime restaurant space previously occupied by The Melting Pot.
Bardea (bar-day-ah) will be an Italian-leaning American with a wood-fired pizza oven, salumi bar, fresh pasta, wines/cocktails, outdoor dining via newly installed windows on Germantown Avenue.
"Affordable sophistication" is how operating partner Scott Stein describes it.
They're talking about an early spring opening.