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Founder Ping Ho is consolidating the butcher-restaurant brand around its Eastern Market space and winding down the original Kercheval location after eight years.
Marrow will serve its last dinner at its West Village restaurant on June 7, ending eight years on Kercheval. Founder Ping Ho announced the closure in a statement posted to social media, framing it as a decision to pull the butcher-and-restaurant brand back to one home base.
"After a lot of reflection, I've made the decision to consolidate Marrow and put our full focus on Marrow in Eastern Market, along with the continued growth of Marrow Detroit Provisions," Ho wrote.
The restaurant at 8044 Kercheval Ave. opened in 2018 and became one of the corridor's anchor destinations, earning four James Beard Award nominations along the way. Ho called the wind-down bittersweet. "Since we opened in West Village in 2018, that space has been home to so many meaningful meals, milestones, and memories," she wrote. In the same statement she thanked chef Sarah Welch and the original opening team for helping build the restaurant's reputation.
The consolidation points everything at Marrow in the Market, the roughly 14,000-square-foot space at 2442 Riopelle in Eastern Market that Marrow now lists as its primary location. The company describes it as a Butcher's Brasserie built around meat processing, a butcher shop, two bars, a dining room and private event space. Marrow's main website now redirects to the Eastern Market site, and West Village no longer appears among its locations.
Marrow's Birmingham storefront at 283 Hamilton Row will keep operating through Memorial Day weekend, Ho said, then shift to a new concept that will still carry a Marrow presence. She did not detail what that concept will be.
For a corridor that spent the last decade turning into a reason to drive across town, losing the restaurant that helped set that pace is not a small thing. The open question is what moves into a footprint built to be both a working butcher shop and a full dining room, a combination most incoming tenants are not set up to inherit.
The last day to eat at the West Village location is June 7.
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