Chef/owner Sean Weinberg and wife Kelly Weinberg recently announced their new bar expansion project at Restaurant Alba, which debuted just prior to the holiday season.
Restaurant Alba has expanded into corner property located at King Street and Warren Avenue directly in front of the newly renovated Malvern Train Station. The new space features a warm and intimate bar area with expanded banquet seating and a new casual small plate menu. The bar is designed especially as an after work meeting spot, for pre-dinner drinks or for a relaxed lunch served on Thursday and Fridays.
Chef Weinberg’s vision for the renovation project was to create a bar area in the tradition of the Northern Italian Aperitivo, serving a variety of complimentary lite bites each weeknight from 4:30 to 6:30 pm in a relaxed, warm atmosphere. The full service bar will specialize in classic cocktails such as the Milanese Martini and the Negroni, as well specialty wines and craft beer.
Celebrating their sixth anniversary, the new full service bar area complements Restaurant Alba’s contemporary cuisine focusing on fresh, seasonal ingredients. Both menus feature dishes simply prepared and cooked over a state-of-the-art wood-burning grill. This allows for true flavors of the food to stand out while being enhanced by a live hickory and mesquite wood fire, a concept found throughout the countryside of Europe.
Weinberg grew up in his parents’ restaurant, the Rose Tattoo Café in Philadelphia. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. He completed an externship in Los Angeles at the Checkers Hotel under the famous restaurateur, Thomas Keller, now of the French Laundry in Napa Valley. Sean completed a two-year apprenticeship throughout various restaurants in Northern Italy, two of which, Il Cibreo of Florence, and Al Covo of Venice are continually in the international spotlight. He also has extensive work experience in Mexico and throughout the American West. Sean was Executive Chef for five years at the Rose Tattoo Café prior to opening Restaurant Alba.
Find Restaurant Alba is located at 7 W. King Street, Malvern, PA. Call 610.644.4009 or online at restaurantalba.com.
Photographs credited to David Snyder. More scenes from Restaurant Alba’s expanded space are available by clicking here.
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