Restaurants will include a steakhouse from a celebrity chef, bistros, bagel shops, taquerias, and New Haven-style pizza.
The Philadelphia-area restaurant scene was hot over the summer. As we head into fall, it won’t cool down.
I count 60 projects on the way in the next several months. Many have been on the books for more than a year as owners work out financing, construction, and permitting delays. Here are a few highlights, as well as hitherto-unreported restaurants. As you’ll see, the concepts are both high and low. And in one case, Hi-Lo:a 400-seat steak house with a retractable roof on two levels in a former bank. Chef Fabio Viviani of Bravo’sa seafood destination out of Baltimore, is being built out on the ground floor of the Arthaus at Broad and Spruce. Its location across from the Kimmel Center will light up a dark corner.