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Errata: False alarm, for now, on Jimmy’s Milan
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Before I make it so that my source for a recent tip on Jimmy's Milan — ye old famously mobbed up restaurant fave on S. 19th St. — sleeps with the fishes, I hear him out so that you can hear me out.
1) I offer, in my best Luca Brazi voice, my sincere apologies to Rick Nichols for not having caught his recent Table 31-steakhouse-gone-Italian story. We love us our Nichols but missed this one and hope his next child be a masculine child. I mention this because my tipster for a recent Icepack bit —
If you could, like we said last week, revive Chestnut Cabaret, why not Jimmy’s Milan? Apparently the formerly mobbed-up dining location on 19th St. might be getting an overhaul courtesy Joe Wolf, who co-founded Striped Bass (with Neil Stein) and heads up Georges Perrier and Chris Scarduzio’s restaurant ops
— may have had things jumbled.
Mr. Joe Wolf was part of Nichols' story on Italian joints like the newly minted Table 31 who, though they serve a nize red gravy, also conjure up a good steak.
Wolf, though (so far), has nothing to do with an impending Milan revival and didn’t say so to me or my tipster. For this, I offer to Philly food-stuffs a laurel and hearty handshake. Yet, my source goes on to say that the whole Jimmy's Milan revival may still be on (and have nothing to do with Wolf) because he, an old-school Manhattan bartender who mixes a mean fragrant sidecar, was part of a discussion of bringing that particular brand of decadent Jimmy's dining back to Philly where my source may indeed relocate.
NYC, at present, is simply a harder sell for many a tony diner and drinker in his estimation and the Jimmy's Milan brand — renowned for rich food from its pastas and veals to its salads — carries panache and continued possibilities in Philly. Or at least my tipster was told by some chooch who might have some money and the Milan ties to maybemaybeMAYBE to make it so. With that, I take the hit (NOT THAT KIND OF HIT) for listening to my source's mash-up without checking it thrice. But I’m way curious to see if a new Jimmy's Milan rears its head sooner than later.
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Um… Would it have been so hard to … I dunno … ACTUALLY CALL JOE WOLF before writing it?