Good evening everyone. I just wanted to make everyone aware of a really good restaurant at 2nd and walnut - Sfizzio. I am sure that a lot of you have heard of it and probably have dined there but I just wanted to express how impressed my partner and I are everytime we go there. It's delicious Italian food at a great location, nice atmosphere, and not too crowded. If you are off to a movie at the Ritz 5 (I think), you should stop in for a bite. also make sure to ask for a window table! :-P

I agree with you, rdm. I had a wonderful brunch there one Sunday afternoon, and I was really surprised that it was empty, except for my group. I plan to go back sometime again when I have a weekend afternoon off.

well.....not anymore

it used to be crowded? how come business has slowed?

Probably because there are so many other options there now. It is like Old Original Bookbinders once having been popular because it was one of a few options in that part of town and then closing when OC blossomed.

Speaking of which, has anyone tried out the "New Old" Original Bookbinders?

Is this the one up on the Towers grounds - used to be Copper Kettle before becoming italian . . . or are you talking about the repositioned Lamberti's.

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the one on the tower grounds. lamberti's is now Positrano something.

i love that area of town anyone know how much the condos are in the society hill towers?

cc: we've been talking friendly for the past several days . . . so please forgive me on this one.

Bookbinders never, at least in my fifteen years in OC, competed with the other restaurants in Old City. In fact, until John Taxin became president of Old City District, he hardly ever acknowledged that his restaurant was in OC - he preferred Society Hill, where he lived.

Bookbinders died not because of competition but because it was an overpriced, underperforming restaurant - where the food sucked despite the high prices.

Then they stripped all the cash out of Old Original and reinvested it in Richmond and trying to find other outlets (Savanah and Charleston were considered). And they sold off the canned food line (Bookbinder's soup is made in Iowa or Utah or some such place).

Then they cried wolf and got city monies to help rebuild.

If the food is the same as it was, this will be another failure . . . and should be.

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