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CookNSolo Announce Lilah
Event Venue
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SASHA ROGELBERG | JE STAFF
RESTAURANT OWNERS
and business partners Michael
Solomonov and Steven Cook
agreed that their respective b’nai
mitzvah were pretty boring.

At Lilah, CookNSolo’s
newest restaurant and first large
venue and catering business,
they hope their guests’ simchas
will be anything but.

Lilah boasts more than
7,000 square feet of space
that will be able to accommo-
date up to 250 seated guests
in an industrial-style dining
area, especially designed for
weddings, b’nai mitzvah and
other larger-scale events.

The venue at 1601 N. Front
St. will open April 2022 and
also will house the second
location of their vegan and
kosher falafel shop Goldie.

Despite working together
for 16 years, Cook and
Solomonov hadn’t considered
catering as a viable business
option; it seemed so different
from running a restaurant.

When they saw guests
proposing, celebrating birth-
days and engagements and
holding small receptions at
some of their other restaurants,
Cook and Solomonov began to
reconsider. Those occasions repre-
sent bright spots in a difficult
industry. “We’re trying to provide
people with special moments,”
Cook said. “When they choose
our restaurant to celebrate these
important milestones in their
lives, that’s like gold for us.”
By opening a venue in a larger
space in Fishtown (the former
headquarters of Honeygrow,
the fast-casual food chain),
CookNSolo can more easily
accommodate guests who wish
to hold special events at their
restaurants. Solomonov believes that a
catering venue will be able to add
diversity to the ways in which
See CookNSolo, Page 8
RONALD RUBIN
May 30, 1931 – April 12, 2021
To our hundreds and hundreds of friends,
we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for
the outpouring of love and support.

Marcia Rubin
and family
Susie Rubin, Bill Rubin & Lizzie Merryman, Scott & Carrie Silberman,
Judith Rubin Morse Garfinkel & Marvin Garfinkel, George & Lorraine Rubin
(nieces and nephews)
Gilead & Beverly Morse, Zoe Morse, Victor Morse
Tim Rubin & Emma Allinson-Rubin, George R. Rubin,
Katerina Rubin, Kelly Rubin
Dan Rubin, Carter Rubin, Casey Rubin, Mikala Rubin, Tori Rubin,
McLane Hendriks, Liza Hendriks
From left: Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook
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