Felicia's, the upper-end Italian at 11th and Ellsworth Streets, is going to settlement this morning (10/18). New occupant will be a gastropub by a crew familiar to the pub scene, and I'll have full details later. Meanwhile, Felicia's owner Nick Miglino has bought 1909 E. Passyunk Ave., which he says he wants to "have fun" with as an Italian pub operation. (No name or opening date there.) He wants to set up Felicia's in Center City but does not have a location.
At left, in a 2001 photo from our archives, Nick Miglino looks at a mural in the interior of Felicia's. Photo by Peter Tobia / The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Tom Kehoe of Yards Brewing is setting up a brewery in the short-lived skateboard park at 901 N. Delaware Ave., a block north of Spring Garden Street and a block south of the planned SugarHouse Casino. He told me it will be a fully functioning brewery that will offer tastings. In other words, don't think of this as a brewpub. The food part "is on our radar, but we know what we're doing with brewing," said Kehoe, who has the brewing equipment already.
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Collingswood will get yet another restaurant: LoBianco New American, at 2 Powell Lane (at Haddon Avenue), in a new commercial and residential complex named,The Lumberyard. This is the same folks who have LoBianco Coastal Cuisine in Margate, which will close after dinner service Saturday 10/20.