Kiss the pig goodbye.
Yesterday evening, as we were … um … doing research at Taste by Niche, chef and owner Gerard Craft entered clutching a foot-long bronze T in one hand and a matching A in the other. Those letters and the accompanying STE, he announced, signaled the end for the Benton Park restaurant’s porcine ensign – the diagram of a primal-cut hog that’s graced Taste’s black east wall since it opened last year. The new sign will replace the diagram directly, Craft said.
In another sign of change, if not change of sign, Taste has added swank chrome-plated outdoor seating for perhaps a dozen extra patrons. That addition almost doubles its capacity, of course – and should make it easier to find a chair for those wishing to drink a farewell toast to Porky.
This article appears in May 1-31, 2010.