One Block of 18th Street to Become Outdoor Cafe June 5

           One block of 18^th Street – between Locust and Walnut – will be closed on Saturday, June 5 from 11 AM to 8 PM for the first Outdoor Café event, organized by and benefitting the Friends of Rittenhouse Square.

 Said Wendy Rosen, president of the Friends, “Tables from Parc, Devon, and Rouge will be set up in the street, and music will be provided by Curtis Institute students. A percentage of all sales from these restaurants will go to the Friends of Rittenhouse Square to help us preserve, protect, and beautify the park.”

            With artists’ booths already ringing the Square Friday through Sunday for the Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show, the tables in the street and the music of Curtis students will lend additional European flair to the neighborhood.  Admission to the Fine Art Show is free.  Lots of good reasons to visit the Square this weekend!