Chefs and Restaurants

Ed Crochet and Justine MacNeil Discuss Finding Work/Life Balance at Philly's Fiore

Regan Stephens

In February 2020, about one year after Ed Crochet and Justine MacNeil opened Fiore Fine Foods, their 95-seat Italian restaurant in Queen Village, Philadelphia, their bookkeeper gave them good news: the restaurant was thriving. “We finally felt like there was ground under our feet,” says MacNeil. “Before then, we were hanging on for dear life.” Three weeks later, the pandemic upended everything. The couple—who had moved to the...