Crest Gastropub on Parsons Avenue will be bigger, sleeker sibling

The owners of the Crest Gastropub are taking the popular Clintonville restaurant to Parsons Avenue with a few tweaks.

A&R Creative Group is sticking with the established name at the venture in the Village Pointe building on the city’s south side, but is giving it a new, “sleeker” look and bigger kitchen, co-owner Ali Alshahal told me.

“It’s not a cookie cutter,” he said. “The Crest is a symbol. It will have the same vibe, but we didn’t want to re-create it. This isn’t something corporate being…