Vesper Club coming back as a supper club
Attorney Chuck Ercole, who owns the Vesper's building and the adjacent building housing Misconduct Tavern, says he is cleaning up the Vesper from a burst pipe last winter and expects to have the space open to the public by mid-November as a supper club (with a piano bar) and for private parties.
The Vesper Club, one of Philly's old-guard private dining clubs, has been down and out for nearly two years now. In late 2012, it sold its landmark building on Sydenham Street - the narrow block between Walnut and Locust and 15th and 16th Streets - and briefly took up residence with the Raquet Club across the street.
Attorney Chuck Ercole, who owns the Vesper's building and the adjacent building housing Misconduct Tavern, says he is cleaning up the Vesper from a burst pipe last winter and expects to have the space open to the public by mid-November as a supper club (with a piano bar) and for private parties.
Ercole declined to divulge more.
Meanwhile, a liquor application has gone up next door at 1515 Locust St. I'm told that developers are hoping to cinch a tenant by having a license ready to go in the space, which years ago housed a Bertucci's pizzeria.