[Baltimore Sun] New restaurant Cece’s Roland Park sets opening date at Village of Cross Keys
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Cece’s Roland Park has set an opening date at the Village of Cross Keys.
The new restaurant from The Cordish Cos. will open to the public on June 13, the Baltimore-based developer said Thursday.
Cece’s, announced last summer, will serve a menu of continental European fare, including pizza, pasta and a whole dover sole, carved tableside. The 7,000-square-foot restaurant takes over retail space in the North Baltimore shopping center that was previously occupied by Chico’s and J.Jill.
Leading the kitchen will be chef Nick Sharpe, an alum of the Mina Group, the hospitality company run by celebrity chef and restaurateur Michael Mina. Sharpe served as executive chef at Michael Mina Bellaggio, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Las Vegas, and also helped open Wit & Wisdom and Pabu, Mina’s since-closed restaurants inside the Four Seasons hotel in Harbor East.
The chef, a native of Frederick, also worked in Washington, D.C., at Vidalia, a Southern restaurant from James Beard Award winner Jeffrey Buben, and in Northern Virginia at Maestro, a restaurant inside the Ritz-Carlton hotel run by the Michelin-starred chef Fabio Trabocchi.
Cece’s will be divided into a formal dining room and a more casual kitchen focused on pizza and pasta. The dining room will serve appetizers like oysters and caviar as well as the dover sole dish, said Sharpe. A bar menu will feature a signature martini, an “impressive tequila selection” and a collection of French and Italian wines, according to a news release.
The restaurant will also have a 3,500-square-foot patio for outdoor dining.
Cece’s is among a wave of new dining options at Cross Keys, which is in the midst of an overhaul led by Caves Valley Partners. The developer bought the Jim Rouse-designed retail and office center for $27 million in 2020.
Arsh Mirmiran, a partner at Caves Valley, said construction is underway on new buildings slated to house Always Ice Cream Co., Kneads Bakeshop, a forthcoming Chinese restaurant from the Atlas Restaurant Group and an Italian market called Za’Vino.
Mirmiran also said a deal is in the works to bring a local Mexican restaurant operator to the space that once housed Donna’s.
“We’ve got a lot of construction going on right now,” Mirmiran said, but predicted work on the shopping center would begin to look complete within the next month or so.
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