For a chef whose résumé includes Michelin recognition, global expansion and viral fame, opening a New York-style red-sauce Italian restaurant in Jupiter might look like a retreat from the centers of gravity that once characterized a career.
Joe Isidori does not call Arthur & Sons’ Jupiter location a passion project, though it would qualify as one. He calls it something else.
“This will be my clubhouse,” he says, standing in the nearly finished Jupiter dining room with an expected Feb. 27 opening, adjusting framed photos as his stepfather Don Beniamino, a millwork expert, fine-tunes the booth woodwork…