Adobe Cafe on the Roxborough side of Manayunk (or the Manayunk side of Roxborough, depending on your point of view) plans to open a second location on South Philly's Passyunk Avenue strip. Address is 1919 E. Passyunk Ave., which last was Elements Sports Cafe after a short turn as Eladio's. (Old-timers remember it as Gentile's Villa Di Rieti, which in its day was a semi-swank Italian nightspot.)
Mariano Herrerias, who's owned the Adobe for seven years since he bought it from Azure's Bob Bitros, says downtown's Adobe will be "the same everything" -- liquor license, easy-on-the-wallet prices and decent veg options. Certainly it will compete with Cantina Los Caballitos.
Herreria says he's working to overcome construction issues -- correcting some errors that previous owners had made in there -- and plans to open May 1.
He'll be in good company. Nick Miglino, formerly of Felicia's, is building his bar Sticks & Stones a few doors away, at 1909 E. Passyunk.
Also on the block are Le Virtu (1927 E. Passyunk) and Tre Scalini (1915 E. Passyunk).