Photo | Drew Lazor

Di Bruno’s Emilio Mignucci recently gave us a few details on the as-yet-unnamed wine bar the cheese pros are putting into the Di Bruno Brothers Prono space at 920 S. Ninth Street. They’re currently in the design phase, with construction to follow soon. Inside will be a 12-seat bar and between 12 and 14 tables, for a total capacity of around 40; outside, they plan on having sidewalk seating as well as expanding into the Frank Rizzo mural lot across the way, dressing it up a bit like a European piazza.

The idea, Mignucci says, is to offer affordable wines by both the bottle and glass, along with lunch and dinner menus featuring harder-to-find Euro (not just Italian) specialties — think jamon iberico, rabbit panini, wild boar ragout and the like.

Mignucci, who’s president of the Italian Market’s business association, says there aren’t too many after-dark destinations in the Market, excluding Gleaner’s and Anthony’s; he hopes this spot will attract those who want to sit “from lunch through dinner, if [they] so choose.”

As far as the name goes — they started with 150 possibilities, which has since been whittled down to 30. The building renderings say “Osteria Di Bruno,” but Mignucci jokes that Marc Vetri’s already got that term unofficially locked up here in Philly.

They’re shooting for a mid- to late-August opening.

After the jump, check out a few larger pictures of what the space will look like. I like the Sims guy’s messenger bag.

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