Spice Street, a restaurant run by Giorgios Bakatsias' restaurant group at University Mall in Chapel Hill, will close in mid-March, according to a press release issued late Thursday.
In its place, Bakastais will open City Kitchen, which will feature "familiar American brasserie fare with locally-grown ingredients in a sophisticated, urbane setting."
The restaurant will close for renovations in mid-March and reopen in early April.
Andrea Weigl has been the food writer at The News & Observer since the summer of 2007. She has won a handful of awards from the Association of Food Journalists and the Society for Features Journalism. Her profile of chef Ashley Christensen titled "A Force of Nature" will be published in the sixth edition of "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing." She is serving a three-year term on the James Beard Foundation book awards committee. Follow her on Twitter at @andreaweigl.
