26-02-2025
Durham restaurant pivots to Filipino cuisine after ownership change
Krill, a pan-Asian-inspired restaurant that opened in downtown Durham in 2022, is under new ownership and pivoting its menu toward Filipino cuisine.
The big picture: Krill was part of a wave of restaurants opened by Giorgios, but the restaurant group will part ways with its ownership share of the restaurant.
Co-equity owners Nick Jordan and Eric Porper — the co-founders of Unboxed Venture Studio, who owned the building Krill was in — decided to take the full ownership stake of the restaurant.
Driving the news: The ownership change puts the husband-and-wife duo of Karl and Paula Sosa fully in charge of the restaurant's menu.
The Sosas have narrowed the menu's Asian focus to the dishes of their native Philippines, making it one of the few restaurants in the Triangle with that focus.
Zoom in: The new menu includes noodle dishes like tapsilog, a Filipino dish that combines marinated beef and rice, as well entrees such as an oxtail stew and chicken with a coconut adobo sauce.
The menu now offers "kamayan-style feasts," which are traditional communal meals where people share dishes between each other.
Krill has also added a weekend brunch menu.
Zoom out: Krill, at 506 Ramseur St., is part of a wave of businesses that have opened east of downtown Durham in recent years.
The restaurant is next to several restaurants and entertainment spaces, including The Fruit, Oscar Diaz's all-day cafe Aaktun, Mezcalito and Ponysaurus Brewing.
