Dan Cirucci: Catelli Duo: Dazzling Dining At Spiffy New Osteria!

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Catelli Duo: Dazzling Dining At Spiffy New Osteria!

For years Catelli at Main Street in Vorhees was one of the best restaurants in the Philadelphia region. Then, last year around this time Catelli closed and announced plans to open a brand new restaurant across town.
The target date was six months from the closing of the original Catelli.
But the new Catelli, christened Catelli Duo took a bit longer to create than originally expected. The owners were determined to get everything right. They wanted a snazzier, more informal, more up-to-the-minute eatery and watering hole -- a convivial osteria and wine bar that would effectively reinvent Italian.
The colors, the textures, the lighting, the chefs, the dishes, the mixologists -- everything had to be just so.
Well, last night Catelli Duo opened for a gala sneak peek and we can tell you that it was all worth waiting for. The place is nothing less than beguiling. With ample comfortable seating, spacious indoor and outdoor bars, private rooms, modular booths, comfy lounge areas and inviting al fresco dining all at the beautiful new Vorhees Town Center, Catelli is easily the most exciting new restaurant to open in South Jersey in quite some time.
At Catelli Duo's splashy preview party we were treated to a huge antipasto and raw bar as well as crispy wood-fired pizza and a variety of tasty small plates that ranged from spaghetti and clams to fresh, plump scallops to lamb chops to tomato soup with grilled cheese wedges to chicken ravioli to beef sliders with fries and chocolate shakes. In short, it was an inventive preview of nearly everything Catelli Duo is able to cook up and then some. And it impressed us mightily.
We predict that Catelli Duo (scheduled for a "soft" opening on Monday, September 17) will be an instant winner. And you can bet we most assuredly will be beck!
BTW: Catelli Duo is positively dreamy and wonderfully seductive at night, as you can see from the photos above. No doubt more than a few romances will begin (and be rekindled at this spot.
All photos copyright 2012 by Dan Cirucci.

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He has been cited by Rush Limbaugh, quoted in the New York Times, featured at Real Clear Politics and Lucianne.com and interviewed on radio, TV and in social media.

He's Dan Cirucci, the founder and editor-in chief of the Dan Cirucci Blog, Matt Rooney's sidekick on Save Jersey's videocasts and one of the most widely honored public relations professionals in his field. He's also been a public relations consultant to numerous organizations and individuals and hosted The Advocates on RVN-TV.

Inducted into the Philadelphia Public Relations Hall of Fame, for many years he served as a Lecturer in Corporate Communication at Penn State University. A former President of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) he has lectured at Rowan University, Temple University, The College of New Jersey and Arcadia University. He has conducted workshops on public relations for thousands of participants throughout the nation and has taught countless others the art of public speaking. He has also advised numerous lawyers, judges, public officials and political candidates.

Cirucci is a prolific writer and his op-ed pieces have appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Courier-Post and other publications.

A native of Camden NJ, Cirucci is a former President of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Cirucci served as Associate Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association for nearly 30 years. He served as Chair of Penn State University's Professional Advisory Board for the Corporate Communication major at Penn State Abington and on the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Judicial Selection Commission.

He received his MA degree from Rowan University and his BA from Villanova University. He has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rowan's public relations program and received the E. A. "Wally" Richter Leadership Award, the highest honor from the National Association of Bar Executives' Communications Section. He has also been honored by numerous other local, state and national groups.

In his hometown of Camden, Cirucci taught fifth grade at the Ulysses Wiggins Elementary School named for the founder of the Camden NAACP. There he was one of the first teachers in the country to teach African-American history to inner city students. He later served as editor of a local weekly newspaper, as Assistant to the Township Manager of Cherry Hill Township and as Associate Director of Communications at the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Cirucci's passions include politics, the popular culture, books and authors, art, communication, music, theatre, movies, dining and travel.

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