New Stephen Starr Restaurant In Rittenhouse Square

Stephen Starr is opening an upscale, modern-Italian restaurant called Il Pittore at 2025 Sansom St., which was formerly Noble American Cookery.

The Rittenhouse Square will be Stephen Starr’s 19th Philadelphia restaurant and his 25th overall. The head chef, Chris Painter, a Pottsville native, and vet of French Laundry and L’Espinasse, is a partner in this venture.

Painter joined Starr in 1999 to open Tangerine, the now-closed Moroccan fantasy on Market Street that won three bells from Craig LaBan and a nod as 2000’s chef of the year. Painter won raves at Angelina, Starr’s altogether underappreciated and short-lived Italian restaurant on Chestnut Street. After Angelina closed, Painter briefly left the fold for Kitchen 233 in Haddon Heights (now closed) and Izakaya in Atlantic City but returned to become Starr’s menu-development guy.

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