The fifth White Dog Cafe is a 400-seat renovation of a landmark Chester County restaurant. Who let the dogs in? That would be Sydney Grims, who owns it with her father, Marty.
Louie and Pippie, her two cavalier King Charles spaniels, need not worry about additional canine company. Grims scours flea markets and consignment shops for dog paintings, statues, figurines, and the like, filling her garage. When that gets to bursting, she and her father, Marty, use her finds — plus plenty of locally commissioned pieces of pooch-theme art — to decorate
With two bars, about 250 seats spread across seven rooms, and 150 more outdoors, this is one of the larger branches of the White Dog, which founder Judy Wicks set up four decades ago on thecampus in Philadelphia. Wicks’ ethos remains: cuisine made from locally sourced, seasonal, and sustainably raised ingredients. In tribute to the original Vickers Restaurant, this location will serve a Monday prime rib special, said culinary director Albert Alvarado.
Stokes Architecture + Design of Philadelphia designed each room with different identities. Original to the circa-1823 building are the dining room and the drawing-room, where many elements were maintained, including original brick flooring. If you look down near the host’s stand, you’ll see, embedded amid the bricks, a gravestone etched with “Faithful friend, 1882-1896″: another dog.
Longtime customers included President Richard M. Nixon, accompanied by his daughter and son-in-law, Julie and David Eisenhower, who lived in the area.sold it in 2009
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