Chef Jeanie Pierola left Bern's this past weekend after ongoing disagreements with Bern's scion David Laxer came to a head. All I can say is that it looks like good news for the rest of us. C'mon, who out there wasn't getting a little tired of the relentlessly eclectic menu and overweening bar crowd at SideBerns?
Now, likely, we'll get a brand new place with the accomplished Pierola behind the menu. And it's not likely the ever-static Bern's itself will change for the worse now that she's gone.
This article appears in Oct 31 – Nov 6, 2007.