restaurant-yenta
Anybody In The Market For A Restaurant Space In Old City?
Because there’s one available. Or one that will be available come spring. The space at 263 North 3rd was once the home of the […]
Return of Restaurant Yenta: What Should Go Into the Latham Hotel?
Once upon a time — well, more like three-plus years ago—we wondered what the problem was with the unoccupied restaurant spaces at the Latham Hotel […]
West Philly Bar Up for Auction
View Larger Map Just over a month ago we floated the idea of a new business concept for Scooters at the corner of 38th and […]
Location Just Screams Gastropub to Us
View Larger Map We spotted this property at 38th and Lancaster on Craigslist and LoopNet recently and cannot help but think it screams gastropub. And […]
What Starr on South Broad Could Mean
With Stephen Starr in agreement to purchase the Broad Street Diner we cannot help but think what might be coming to Broad Street south of […]
Valanni’s New Fall Dinner Menu
Ten years in, Valanni is still going strong. Check out their fall menu here.
A Quiet Opening… and a Quiet Closing
Lynda’s Mediterranean, the Middle Eastern spot on Passyunk Avenue opened so quickly, we barely got wind of it. Thanks to our eagle-eyed commenters, we found […]
Ex-Pearl Owner Dives Back In
We came across this little ditty tucked into Dan Gross’s column today: …Vice stayed limber with shots of Patron in the DJ booth with promoter […]
And Now the Not-So-Happy News
A well-connected Starrling tells us that neither of the potential Starr restaurants – the Broad Street Diner and the Letto Deli – we’ve been following […]
And the New Tria Goes To…
Sorry, Queen Village! If all goes smoothly, Tria #3 will be located in the former M.A.B. paint store at the corner of 21st and South. […]
Restaurant Yenta: Starr Struck Again?
Well, Stephen Starr, you certainly are keeping our rumor-mongering restaurant yenta crew busy these days. First with the takeover of the Broad Street Diner and […]
Restaurant Yenta: Tria 3 Needs a Home
Which neighborhood will get the next Tria? It’s been a pretty hot topic of conversation around these parts. Every time we ask owner Jon Myerow […]
A Greek Broad Street Diner?
It’s been awhile since I last visited the inside of Stephen Starr’s head. I mean, we’ve both been really, really busy and venturing inside of […]
Cornering the Market
 *Photo by B. Krist for GPTMC It’s a new week and that means a new version of Restaurant Yenta! Since you were all so […]
The Not-So-Jolly Latham Situation
Once upon a time, a really strange and inexplicably appealing bar named Jolly’s lived in the semi-subterranean ground floor of the Latham Hotel on the […]