Dinner entree prices run from $24 for chicken and tuna to $55 for two of the steaks.
Modern, open layout at the former Roux 3 includes a semiprivate, semicircular booth.
Besides Azie on Main, the Somboonsongs' Win Signature Restaurants include Thai Pepper and the adjacent Mikado in Ardmore, Flavor in Wayne, Teikoku down the road in Newtown Square, and Azie in Media.
What's coming
Clark Gilbert, last at Taquet after stops at the Fountain at the Four Seasons, the Saloon, and La Terrasse, is about a week from opening Gemelli, a BYOB at 232 Woodbine Ave. in Narberth, which last was Margot. (Owner Margot McGinley told me she closed her three-year-old bistro last month as the birth of her third baby approached.) Gilbert says Gemelli will be a dinner-only neighborhood place; menu will be Italian-American with "French sensibility" - simple, straightforward - and, as he stresses, value. He wants the check to be about $30 per person, and he'll offer a five-course tasting menu for $40. Meredith Merlini, who worked with Gilbert at Mio Pomodoro, will run the front of the house.
The West Philly BYOB Marigold Kitchen (501 S. 45th St., 215-222-6751) will reopen Wednesday under new chef-owner Robert Halpern, melding classic French and ambitious, imaginative postmodern techniques. See the menu at www.marigoldkitchenbyob.com; appetizers are $8 to $12 and entrees are $18 to the low-20s, plus a $27 rib-eye. There's a five-course tasting menu for $55 and a nine-course chef's tasting for $95. It's open for dinner Tuesdays through Sundays. Marigold's previous crew is preparing Percy Street Barbecue at 900 South St. for late October or early November.
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