The Dining Dish blog is Dara Bunjon's take on anything food, both national and in her hometown of Baltimore. Warning: this food blog can be harmful to your waistline.

Thursday, July 02, 2015

Grano Emporio in Hampden: Cha, cha, changes


Grano Emporio is moving from Hampden.  Owner, Gino Troia, has informed us it is moving, but at this time he isn’t at liberty to divulge the new location. Troia stated, “We decided to look for a buyer two years ago. We had a few offers from big players, but we resisted selling to big money as it would have added more competition to the Grano Pasta Bar,” also located on the Avenue in Hampden.

As for Grano Emporio’s building on Chestnut Avenue – Troia confirmed negotiations are all positive with Bottega and its owner Adrien Aeschilman, the highly popular micro Italian restaurant from the Station North neighborhood.  
There is more!  Gino advised, “In October of 2014 Grano Pasta Bar (GPB) signed a lease with Baltimore City to build a GPB in Cross Street Market, which was put on hold as City Administration was looking to lease the market to developers.  Two weeks ago we resumed our work with Chesapeake Commercial Contracting to move quickly and plan to be operating in the Cross Street Market before the winter holidays.” 

Many of you will recollect that Grano Pasta Bar was featured this past year on Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives on the Food Network.

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