Au Revoir Brasserie Perrier

[shacke]

The Inky is reporting the whiplash rapid closing of Brasserie Perrier:

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/37034694.html

Is this the beginning of the end of a tired empire? Lease issues reported. True or is spending more time with the family overused as a reason these days?

Edited January 8, 2009 by shacke (log)

[Mummer]

This was a next step. The beginning was when LBF changed the concept, gaving up their stars.

[KatieLoeb]

Um. Don't necessarily count Georges down and out yet. His restaurant in the burbs and Table 31 are still very much operational, as is the now more casual and less starred Le Bec Fin. I'm not saying it's their heyday, but it's a long way from circling the drain like some other likely suspects in town...

When they start cutting their hours back to nothing or unpredictable, stop paying the help, close down for days with no notice or inexplicably turn into a macaroni and cheese cafe then we can talk about the end of an empire. And don't forget. You need to have established an empire to lose one.

Edited January 8, 2009 by KatieLoeb (log)

[Andrew Fenton]

Rumor has it that the BP space will become an Apple store. Which would be great news for Center City Mac users; I've definitely schlepped out to the Ardmore store way more times over the last couple of years than I've eaten at Brasserie Perrier...

[philadining]

I've always thought Apple Stores should have restaurants in them, like IKEA...

[MarketStEl]

I've always thought Apple Stores should have restaurants in them, like  IKEA...

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Before that happens, Apple will come out with the first circular laptop computer, the Apple pi.

[Holly Moore]

About a half a year ago Apple was negotiating for another space, about a block away, for a Mac Store. Sounds like they now have a location.