Marc Vetri's Lo Spiedo specializes in Italian-style barbecue

Marc Vetri is one of Philadelphia's most famous chefs, and he has just opened up his seventh restaurant - this one in the Navy Yard, and it's barbecue done Italian-style right on the spit.

It's called Lo Spiedo, which is Italian for 'the spit'.

Culinary Director Jeff Michaud tells us, "We have an eight foot, seven foot long wood grill and it has two sections with four rotisseries on each side."

And manning those rotisseries is not for the faint of heart, with each grill reaching 600-700 degrees.

Michaud says they wanted to use 'the spit' to go back to the basics.

"We had kinda been joking around the kitchen calling it caveman cooking," Michaud said.

"We rub all the meats and the chicken and the fish and the vegetables with [the spice rub], we spit roast everything on the fire. We wanted everything to be very simple."

They're doing it like the Italians do.

After the meats come off the spit they're dressed in a mixture of rubs and olive oil, called a mop.

The chefs cook almost everything here on Lo Spiedo - from spit roast vegetables to whole chickens, and in true Italian style...octopus.