by KYW's Hadas Kuznits
A Philadelphia restaurateur will soon be part of the commercial growth in the Headhouse Square district, near 2nd and South Streets.
Restaurant entrepreneur Stephen Starr confirms that he's working on a new restaurant at the former Cosi site, at 2nd and Lombard (above):
"I've been wanting to do pizza for a long time because I usually do things that I want. And I can't get really good pizza here in Philadelphia, so I'm just doing what I want to eat!"
He says they'll offer lunch, dinner, and may even a little Italian-style breakfast. But they will specialize in pizza:
"It's going to be real thin-crust, Brooklyn-style pizza, which you'd think is served here but it's not. Here it's just thick, doughy pizza. We're doing a lot of research on this."
And the tentative name?
"It's probably gonna be called Pizza Select. That's the name that I think -- I actually went to Paris and I saw a bistro called 'Le Select' and I liked the name. So I think it may be called Pizza Select."
He's hoping to have it open by the fall:
"I'd say sometime in September. September, October."
(Kuznits:) "Any other little secrets you want to tell us about the new place?"
(Starr:) "No, because you're not supposed to even know about this new place! You just tracked me down here and I can't lie. I'm like George Washington."
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