Four Scarsdale Village addresses sit within a short walk of the corner where Spencer Place meets East Parkway. Since Labor Day, three of them have opened, been approved to open, or been announced. The fourth is the one that would bring people downtown on an ordinary Tuesday, and it still has no opening date.
Here is where the block stands as October ends:
- 57 Spencer Place. Capretta has been open for dinner since September 15 and for lunch since September 22.
- 30 East Parkway. Scarsdale Wine Merchants is now in a larger storefront here after leaving 2 Depot Place.
- 100 Christie Place and the corner of East Parkway. Core Burn Pilates received permission at the September 22 Village Board meeting, and Caffe Nero is slated for the corner.
- 58 East Parkway. DeCicco & Sons' Piccolino Market is still billed as "Coming to Scarsdale, 2026."
Put together, the corner now has a place for dinner, a place to buy a bottle to bring to it, and soon a café and a fitness studio. The everyday errand that used to anchor East Parkway is still missing.
Dinner Came First
Z Hospitality Group runs Capretta. The group started in 1991 with Terra in Greenwich, and it also runs Aurora in Rye plus Mediterraneo, Eastend, Solé and Blackbird across Fairfield County. Capretta is its eighth restaurant. It took over the former Akai space at 57 Spencer Place. Lohud reported that dinner service started September 15, a week before the ribbon-cutting. Mayor Justin Arest, Deputy Mayor Dara Gruenberg and Trustee Tim Foley cut the ribbon on September 22, and lunch started the same day.
Lohud named Matt McNerney and Albert DeAngelis as executive chefs and partners. The restaurant's menu is built around handmade pasta and the wood-fired oven. It includes wood-fired meatballs with whipped ricotta, stuffed gnocchi, agnolotti, butterflied branzino and Parmesan-crusted West Coast halibut. On October 13, Scarsdale10583's review singled out the roasted-chicken agnolotti, the San Marzano and Detroit-style pizzas, chicken scarpariello and braised short ribs.
Dinner runs 5 to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, until 10:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and until 9:30 p.m. on Sunday. The phone number is 914-202-6900. The Bronxville Beacon describes the room as airy and bright, with doors that open onto the street. That will matter less in November than it did in September.
The Wine Shop Moved Toward the Tables
Capretta was not the only business to land on this corner in September. Scarsdale Wine Merchants moved from 2 Depot Place into a bigger store at 30 East Parkway, a few doors from the restaurant. According to Westfair Online, the move happened after the Depot Place landlord declined to renew the lease.
The new store is near the old Zachys space. Zachys was a longtime Scarsdale wine name that moved to Port Chester during the pandemic, so East Parkway has a wine storefront again for the first time in several years. Owner Kristie Petrullo Campbell is a sommelier, and Scarsdale10583 reported that she plans to start weekend tastings soon. Hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
The next two arrivals add daytime traffic. At the same September 22 meeting, the Village Board approved Core Burn Pilates for a 1,539-square-foot studio at 100 Christie Place, the former Bank of America space. Caffe Nero is expected at the corner of East Parkway and Christie Place. As of the latest reports, neither one has opened.
Once those two open, the corner will have something going on from a morning class and coffee to a late dinner. The category it still lacks is the one most households need every week.
The Gap at 58 East Parkway
DeCicco Family Markets closed its 31-year-old store at 58 East Parkway in November 2024. That November is two years ago next month, and the Village has had no grocery store since. DeCicco & Sons, a separate branch of the family that runs more than 11 Westchester locations including Ardsley, Eastchester, Larchmont and Pelham, is building Piccolino in the same space. It is the first DeCicco & Sons store to use a different name.
Lohud reported in February that the name means "little one," a nod to the store's compact footprint. The plan calls for gourmet groceries, Italian baked goods, produce, prepared foods, a large beer selection, and meats raised without antibiotics or added hormones. The build uses Pozzotive, a concrete made with recycled glass, along with reclaimed brick and wood and a system that reuses refrigeration heat for hot water and store heating.
On August 12, Scarsdale10583 found the exterior windows in and work underway inside. The store had originally been expected this past summer, and no firm opening date has been announced. The Piccolino website still says only "Coming to Scarsdale, 2026," with about nine weeks left in the year.
The nearest new grocery opened just past the Village line. Sprouts Farmers Market opened on schedule on September 4 in the former BEST Market space in Hartsdale, just south of the Scarsdale border. It is Sprouts' first Westchester store. The Sprouts Hartsdale store listing gives the address as 393 N. Central Ave., Suite B, with hours of 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. It is a drive, though, and it is not on East Parkway.
Four Sundays Left on Chase Road
Until Piccolino opens, fresh produce comes to the Village center once a week. The Scarsdale Farmers Market sets up Sundays from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Chase Road outside the Scarsdale Post Office, as part of the Scarsdale Business Alliance's Destination Scarsdale program. The Alliance lists DeCicco & Sons as the program's Neighborhood Sponsor.
The Alliance calendar shows four market Sundays left:
- November 1: Public Safety Day, with member activations from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. alongside the market
- November 8: Market only
- November 15: Market only
- November 22: Market only, and the last Sunday on the calendar
The Village's own calendar describes the market season as running Sundays from May through November. Unless Piccolino opens in the next few weeks, the Sunday after Thanksgiving will be the first since early May with no produce stand downtown, and the grocery storefront will still be closed.
The Rest of the Village Calendar Through Thanksgiving Weekend
Most of the rest of the month happens within a few blocks of the same corner:
- Friday, October 30, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.: Scarsdale Village Halloween Parade
- Wednesday, November 4, 6 to 7 p.m.: Author talk with S. L. Price at Scarsdale Public Library
- Thursday, November 12, 7 p.m.: Wine tasting and silent auction at the Scarsdale Woman's Club
- Tuesday, November 17, 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.: Petite Concerts for children at the library
- Wednesday, November 18: Robert Groban on U.S. immigration history at the Woman's Club, where programs start at 2 p.m. unless otherwise noted
- Saturday, November 28, 2 to 3:30 p.m.: "Bling's the Thing," an arts-and-crafts program for ages 12 and up at the library
The Woman's Club wine night falls on a Thursday. Capretta serves dinner until 10 p.m. that night, and Scarsdale Wine Merchants closes at 8.
Storefronts like these shape how a downtown works day to day, well before they show up in any market report. If you're curious how this kind of change on East Parkway fits into the bigger Scarsdale picture, Tom Flynn is glad to talk it through, and he's watching for Piccolino's opening date too. Let's Connect.
