Catelli Restaurant, one of South Jersey’s best known eateries, retired its Main Street Voorhees location on last month and will launch a new restaurant concept at Voorhees Town Center this Fall. Catelli gift cards will be honored at the new location.
Catelli Restaurant Group’s exciting new concept, Osteria Duo, will feature Italian/American-inspired dishes that have earned Catelli the distinction of being South Jersey’s most award-winning restaurant. Osteria Duo will be located on Town Center Boulevard, across from The Rizzieri Studio Salon at Voorhees Town Center.
Principal partners of Catelli are Linda Rosanio and Jan Talamo, who also are co-founders and owners of The Star Group, the region’s largest independent marketing company. Star opened its New Jersey flagship office at Voorhees Town Center in 2008.
“We’ve offered sophisticated cuisine in a fine dining environment for the past 17 years,” says Rosanio. “And we’ve watched consumers’ dining habits change. Our new restaurant concept is right for the times and has been years in the making.”
“Osteria Duo can best be described with three words: rustic, romantic, and Italian,” explains Talamo. “Our restaurant will speak to the way people want to dine today. It will be fun, bustling, convivial, and more approachable, with greater emphasis on the bar side of our business and wine as the main attraction. But our commitment to food quality center of the plate will be unwavering. And with Lou Imbesi weaving his culinary magic, we’ll be adding a new dimension to dining in our region.”
Talamo is no stranger to forging new restaurant concepts. As The Star Group’s Chief Creative Officer and head of brand strategies, he works closely with the agency’s large portfolio of hospitality and casino clients, helping them to create more than 250 restaurant concepts nationwide over the last 20 years.
“We are thrilled that Osteria Duo will join Voorhees Town Center’s emerging “restaurant row” on The Boulevard, offering modern and convenient dining experiences in a beautiful, outdoor lifestyle setting, ” says Joseph F. Coradino, President, PREIT Services, LLC. “We expect The Boulevard will become one of the region’s most intimate, unique and popular dining scenes.”
“Catelli was the first restaurant we approached during the planning stages at Voorhees Town Center, “ notes Coradino. “It’s great to see our combined vision come to fruition and we are confident that Osteria Duo will add significantly to enhancing the new spirit of community that is blossoming at Voorhees Town Center.”
“We are proud of what we’ve accomplished at Catelli’s over 17 years. The restaurant business is a lot like the theater business. Some shows have long, successful runs and we’ve been fortunate to have the greatest run at the Main Street location,” says Rosanio.
“We’ve touched thousands of lives and have helped create many great memories,” she adds. “Hundreds of wedding proposals have happened at Catelli. We have been a first choice for anniversaries, communions, weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, rehearsal dinners, corporate meetings and power lunches. My fondest memory in the business is when Catelli was picked to host the St. Louis Rams football team when they were in town to play the Eagles over the weekend that rang in the new millennium. We were under a gag order and couldn’t publicize it. The Rams went on to win the Super Bowl that year and I tell people it was the magic of the veal chops.”
“Certainly, Catelli has been a great special occasion restaurant, but the new restaurant will be an equally memorable “any occasion” restaurant,” adds Rosanio.
2 comments:
It's winter -- not fall and still no restaurant in sight or in the news. What's up?
The emergence of a new restaurant can be a difficult and often tedious process. I have no idea what's behind the apparent delay but this is not unusual.
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