James Beard Award Winner Opens "Bar Cicci"

One of the most highly anticipated bars, restaurants bar to chief Bob there. Good morning, everybody, you know, I was able to transform myself from center city to Italy in a matter of 5 minutes. Our cheat sheet which means small plate small nibbles and that's exactly what we have here for a new spot right in the lower level of the Josephine a little cappuccino to start the morning, I got a little spritzer for lunch and then out comes the line at night time and tight coming up next. It's a job. Bob Kelly said that were. I like the colors. Here are 2 G one thing I learned is you don't say the word breakfast here they don't use the word. It's pastries all day every day. James Beard award-winning restaurateur Ellen Yan just has opened a new spot in Rittenhouse inspired by trip to Italy and it's kind of Rittenhouse at around 16th and Sansom bar. But she she exactly we're in the lower level of the Josephine building Mike in kind of right behind the other happy rooster to kind of give you an idea and if you were in Italy right now they really don't like you sitting because the cafes are all small and not a lot of places to sit so this is a perfect scenario. We're kind of transformed ourselves into Italy, you have a good time. I'm having a wonderful time, I'm trying to get used to it because I have a grandson, okay, that just left for all he's a rising junior, okay, yeah, all right we're going to reach out to him if it doesn't feel like you're in Rome right here. This is the closest you're going to get to go visit him because you know it doesn't cost you a dime high Christina, how are you I'm good how are you this is so cool, I love the intimate spot and tell me Archie she what does that mean Archie she is she she is plural for teach you which is an Italian sort of term of endearment meeting like cute little one. And since we have a tiny space and we serve really cute little cute little by exactly I learned it you don't say the word breakfast here because we don't have breakfast with a look at dinner it's just cute little things all day long it's an all day experience loves the all day long. That right, you're laughing. I should tell me what you have here, let's get started first of all sort of cappuccinos and espressos yes, okay is on its coffee. We use a really nice dark rose that gives you that same sort of feeling of like you're in Italy and then what is this so we have this okay, yeah, this is this is large for a little bite, but this is absolutely delicious. It's our olive spinach, you know with paper thinly sliced mortadella I just kind of pick at it. Yeah, exactly okay, and then some of our rosemary almonds we have some really nice pass of the trial all is just something like to kind of snack on while you're enjoying years, but we are only some folks down here, you know they worked in the overnight shift to some of the hospital. You have a liquor license with some great beverages we did we could get any time of the day so what do we have here which one should we start so this is the Negroni this is very classic. Northern Italian aperitivo okay. She's I just want to this one that's the spot we have to so this is a lighter spritz your version of the Negroni and and George get a shot back here because of the counter is classic Italy if I was in Italy right now and come in and walk through the counter and pick the little bites exactly okay, what's your favorite thing here. So question. I love all of our cornetti which is an Italian version of a croissant okay, we have about 7 different types of cornetti that we all make at our sister restaurant high Street and we have to have a cannoli cannoli all of those cannoli is hand rolled. Really nice for caught and what are our feeling. We're open at 08 a.m. 9 o'clock during the week and 10 o'clock p.m. on the weekend, I wish you guys the best of luck you just opened up a week ago. I love it, you know what I love to guys is that it's perfect little bites little bites of things you can sample so many different items and not feel full when you leave here. She wants to go to Rome.