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.