 Parrotta took over The Happy Rooster from former owner "Doc" Ulitsky and his wife Madeline, who established the restaurant, in 1968, as the first caviar and vodka bar in the city. The Ulitskys chose the name after touring the world and finding the friendly rooster motif on many menus. Rose would like the "regulars" to know that she will not be changing much as an old customer of the Rooster, she likes it the way it is.
The following is an excerpt from a recent article "She rules the Roost" that appeared in the City Paper.
"When Rose Parrotta first walked into The Happy Rooster nearly a decade ago she immediately fell in love with it --"It was like Miss Havisham's from Great Expectations. This is her bedroom with all the cobwebs, but it's just so beautiful...."-and she almost got thrown out for sitting alone at the bar. No single women at the bar was just one of the many old-fashioned Rooster rules--like the jacket-and-tie dress code for men - that owner Abe "Doc" Ulitsky enforced. But that's the way things used to be. Parrotta recently bought the old boys' club of a restaurant-bar on the corner of 16th and Sansom and will reopen in the first week of May after giving it a minor facelift........ Since the women who was almost ejected now runs the roost, she can make her own rules. At the new Rooster, men can leave their jackets behind, and ladies can finally pull up a chair at the bar -- right next to Parrotta."
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