![]() ![]() ![]() Inside there are seats for about 180 the outdoor seating configuration hasn’t been finalized just yet. The eclectic décor includes a dressmaker’s dummy in a glass case. The wall breaks up the large room, loosely dividing the dining room from a big white marble U-shaped bar lined with high stools. The raw touches blend well with burlap-wrapped ceiling tiles (to offset the acoustics of concrete floors), wood tables and chairs, and what Halberg calls a “jigsaw puzzle” wall made of wood slabs with spaces between them. “There are so many other great restaurants that are building energy in the neighborhood, so if we can wedge in the middle and be part of that, that’s great.” “You want to be in a neighborhood where there’s some compatibility to the style of businesses,” he says of choosing East Passyunk. Halberg, a chef turned senior VP at Barcelona Wine Bar, which has locations up and down the East Coast, says the goal is a relaxed restaurant that fits in with its surroundings, and feels like it’s always been there. “Some of the lights were recovered out of a warehouse, some are chicken feeders.” That’s not a big fancy wine room it’s racks stacked into a triangle.” He points up. Graffiti is part of the neighborhood, so that’s staying,” says Adam Halberg, gesturing toward a splash of graffiti on an outside wall of the restaurant, facing East Passyunk Avenue, and another inside next to a glass-doored wine room. “We’re not out to change the neighborhood. The upcoming Barcelona Wine Bar may be a stylish wine and tapas spot nestled among the destination restaurants on Philly’s hottest food strip, but that doesn’t mean the owners are scrubbing off old graffiti.
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