Ten Tables, take two

A second branch of Jamaica Plain's Ten Tables is opening in Cambridge. It will take over Craigie Street Bistrot's current location, pending license transfers.

Coming soon to Cambridge: like this, but a little different.

The new Ten Tables will also be called Ten Tables, though it will have 49 seats. (Almost Fifty really doesn't have the same ring.) The wine and beer license is expected to transfer sometime in December; owner Krista Kranyak says they're shooting to open a week before Christmas.

The Cambridge Ten Tables will feel a lot like the original, with a more extensive wine list, a slightly larger menu, and what Kranyak calls "bigger, rustic European bistro food."

"It will have its own unique personality," Kranyak says of the new restaurant. "These siblings aren't identical twins."

But the new place "will still have the homey, in-your-own-dining-room feeling," she says. "Carry some of that JP romance over to Cambridge."

David Punch will be chef and co-owner of the new location while remaining chef de cuisine at the JP spot. He'll still cook in JP on Tuesdays, but he'll be in Cambridge the other nights. When Punch isn't in the JP kitchen, sous chef Josh Caswell will be running the show.

As for Craigie Street Bistrot, it's closing its doors at the end of the month to move to the old La Groceria space on Main Street; it's currently taking reservations through Oct. 25. It will then become Craigie on Main, with a projected opening in early November.