From Briefs to Brie
After 32 years as a civil litigator, Bruce Klores has decided to switch gears... to grilled cheese. He will be opening GCDC, a grilled-cheese-cum-wine-and-cheese shop, at 17th and Penn in early March. Bruce doesn't view this as a retirement, just the next chapter in his professional life. He's winding down his law practice, and has been working with restaurant consultant Adam Williamowsky (formerly of Financial Foods, now with streetsense). During this transition, his main objective is caring for his current clients.
And Bruce isn't the only career-changer on the roster. Helping with wine and cheese tastings and behind the bar will be retired Superior Court Senior Judge Natalia Combs Greene, and his son Stephen set aside a promising musical career to head up menu development. Bruce owns the three-story brownstone that houses his law offices, and the team has turned the basement into a "grilled cheese lab" where Stephen has been experimenting with and honing grilled cheese and soup recipes. The space was actually Bruce's very first office back in his law clerk days (well before he bought the building); it's only fitting that he's now launching another brand new career in that same space.
