Insta-famous and perennially queued creperie RAC is going to open a second location in downtown this spring, according to the owners. The restaurant, which went gangbusters soon after opening at the tail end of Anfu Lu about a year ago, is constantly packed for what are admittedly some very excellent crepes (and interior design). The second RAC will be on Shaanxi Nan Lu at the intersection of Xinle Lu, in the two-story storefront that used to house Insta-famous coffee shop Paras.
The old Paras space, if you'd not been, has a high A-frame roof and buckets of sunshine pouring through skylights — with the RAC design team, it's going to be a beautiful shop. The team have already been handed the location and are in the design stage now, working on kitchen configurations and construction plans. The menu will be similar to the daytime/crepe menu at the original RAC, though will probably not do the nighttime/non-crepe menu favor. In fact, it may even close by 7 or 8pm, though that detail hasn't been finalized. There are other things to do first, like build the place. Tentative scheduling looks like it should be open by the end of April or possibly May.
