Jose Garces -- fresh from opening Distrito and victory over Bobby Flay in "Iron Chef America" -- has another restaurant coming up. And it's not Chifa, his Peruvian-Chinese melange that he has up for 707 Chestnut St. next year.
Cast your eyes to the northwest corner of 20th and Sansom Streets, next door to the expansion of Tinto. It's the former Crimson Moon coffeehouse.
Garces tells me that he'll take it over next year for what he calls a very casual concept, to be determined.
You may have heard rumors last year that Garces wanted to do a casual Latin spot at what was Mandoline, the tiny corner spot next to Amada at Chestnut and Strawberry Streets in Old City. That plan fell through. The space is now Meju, a Korean BYO.