New Zavino Opens This Weekend At Chestnut Square

After a long wait, the new, second location for Zavino will be debuting this Saturday at Chestnut Square in University City (3200 Chestnut Street). The new address is three times the size of the Center City original, with an expanded menu of wood-fired pizzas, pastas, charcuterie–all the same stuff as is done at the Zavino mothership only, you know, more.

To wit, chef Carlos Aparicio is opening with a bunch of specials on the board like The Joey, with Berkshire pork sausage, mozzarella, crushed tomato, spinach, garlic, chili flakes and provolone; a rock shrimp pizza with habanero cheddar, mozzarella, rock shrimp, red pepper salsa and chili oil; and The Stache–a whole wheat crust topped with pistachio pesto, mozzarella, parmesan, lemon vinaigrette and baby arugula. His crew will also be knocking out hand-made pastas, and using the bigger kitchen to do steaks, Amish chickens with smoked eggplant puree and whole fish of the day. And yet, the menu will be topping out around twenty bucks–which, in that neighborhood, ain’t too bad.

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