Article: City Tavern re-equips kitchens. (news & events).(Brief Article)

In summer 2001, Walter Staib, owner of Philadelphia-based City Tavern restaurant and consultant firm Concepts By Staib Ltd., decided the time had come to replace his flagship restaurant's equipment. After seven-and-a-half years of intensive use, the operation's heavy equipment was ready to be phased out and Staib was ready to add a piece of equipment he had been wanting for years: a deck oven with a stone baking surface.

"I've wanted an oven with a stone baking surface for quite a while, so that the baking process for our breads would be historically correct," Staib said. "Eighteenth-century breads, such as the ones we make at City Tavern, were baked on stone, ...

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