Joe Biden made a quick breakfast stop at Parc on Monday
The former president stopped by the hit Stephen Starr restaurant in Rittenhouse while the crew of 'Reacher' was filming at the French bistro
On Monday morning, during the filming of the hit series Reacher on the corner of 18th and Locust Streets, former President Joe Biden stopped by Parc for breakfast. He was welcomed with clapping and cheering from the crew, which included actor Alan Ritchson.
With production for the Prime Video show’s fourth season in full swing, Biden arrived at the Rittenhouse Square restaurant a little after 9 a.m., said blogger HughE Dillon, known as phillychitchat on social media, who was present at the filming location.
“I was wondering why the cast and crew broke into applause as a guy with white hair walked into the restaurant,” Dillon wrote in an Instagram post.
The Biden family previously stopped by the Stephen Starr-owned French restaurant in April 2023, after a visit to the University of Pennsylvania for the art show of the former president’s granddaughter Maisy Biden. The Bidens celebrated at Parc for lunch shortly after, with the then-president stepping outside to wave to hundreds of bystanders outside the restaurant.
On Monday, the former president left the restaurant around 10:15 a.m., Dillon said, and posed for selfies and shook hands with some police officers on his way to the car.
Biden’s visit to Parc, one of his first public appearances since the announcement of his prostate cancer diagnosis in May, came at a time when Democrats including Pennsylvania Reps. Brendan Boyle, Dwight Evans, and Mary Gay Scanlon, as well as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, are boycotting Starr’s D.C. restaurants following allegations of union busting.
Starr has donated thousands to the campaigns of Biden, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.), former Philly mayor and Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, and the Democratic National Committee, according to OpenSecrets.org.