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Lolita owners Valerie Safran and Marcie Turney
Photo by G. Widman for GPTMC
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Few chefs have been as directly influential in one neighborhood's development as Marcie Turney. The introduction of the inventive Nuevo-Mexican bring-your-own-bottle (BYOB) Lolita, the mod homewares store Open House, the gourmet prepared-foods boutique Grocery, and the brand new modern Indian BYOB Bindi — all four co-owned by Turney and her partner Valerie Safran — have transformed the 13th Street strip into a chic dining and shopping destination within a few short years.