- JAMES OSTRAND
- Chef Jeannie Pierola opens her latest project, edison: food+drink lab, in Tampa on August 7.
Chef Jeannie Pierola won renown last decade for overseeing the kitchens at Sidebern’s and Bern’s, and attracted plaudits more recently for her pop-up restaurant concept, Kitchenbar.
But her latest venture, Edison: food+drink, promises to be a departure from her fine-dining background.
“Call it a gastropub or a diner,” Pierola said Monday. “I want it to be an everyday joint that serves really amazing food unpretentiously.”
The concept has been in development over the last few years.
“It’s an everyday inventive kitchen,” Pierola said. “A place where everything we do is first class in execution and quality.”