Just shy of its two-year anniversary, Wolf Pack Chorus announced today that it was closing in the "early days of February."
Taking over the former home of Club Isabella at 2175 Cornell Road, near the corner of Murray Hill’s stretch of red brick road, the restaurant from Chris and Katie Wolf brought a refreshing and sunny, well-adorned eatery to Little Italy in March 2023. The menu was American with French influence, offering dishes such as Nashville-style duck confit ($33) and Chicken Francaise ($26). Yet, like many recently, the restaurant couldn't make it out of the hospitality industry's slowest and toughest days of the year.
The restaurant's announcement read:
"I'm not sure how to start this. I feel there have been too many of these announcements over the last few months. And yet, here we are. Service has been a fierce passion of mine, for as long as I can remember. The hospitality industry, specifically food and beverage, has given me an outlet to serve. I have received extreme pride and gratitude over the last three years from creating "the Wolf" to bringing Wolf Pack Chorus to life to watching our amazing staff grow up and continue their journey of being great and talented humans to now, moving on to the next chapter. To get to spend time with you and your friends and families has been an honor, and I will continue to celebrate all the memories that we have created for a long time to come."
In an April 2024 review, in which the restaurant received praise, the husband-wife duo described stumbling into restaurant ownership. Chris was previously the executive chef of Shaker Heights Country Club, and Katie worked in commercial underwriting at Progressive. She outfitted the room with a grand piano and tall windows, while he worked on the menu.
“We’re first-time business owners, and in today’s economic and political climate, that’s really scary,” Chris says. “We threw everything into this. We sold our house and a car; if I could’ve sold a kidney, I probably would’ve done that, too. For us, it was win or go home.”
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