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West Philly Han Dynasty aiming for May; Old City speakeasy before summer?
Han Chiang, fresh off opening a Manayunk location of Han Dynasty just before Christmas, has honed in on the vacant U-City Science Center restaurant space at 3711 Market for an 88-seat Handy location.
West Philly Han Dynasty aiming for May; Old City speakeasy before summer?
Han Chiang, fresh off opening a Manayunk location of Han Dynasty just before Christmas, has honed in on the vacant U-City Science Center restaurant space at 3711 Market for an 88-seat Handy location. He hopes the restaurant, which also has room for about 40 outside, will be open for Penn graduation in May, which thrusts pretty much every reservationist in the city into pastel-clad pandemonium. Chiang, who regularly accommodates large parties from Penn at his Old City restaurant (he's already got 200 on the books for graduation here), feels confident he can make a successful go of it in the space that formerly housed Daniel Stern's MidAtlantic (pictured), which shut down in late February after three-plus years.
In other news at 108 Chestnut: Before the summer, when Chiang has plans to ship off to China to attend culinary school, he wants to finish the conversion of the restaurant's basement into a "speakeasy" operating four nights a week (Friday and Saturday for customers and Sunday and Monday for the industry). He's been talking about this one for awhile; he'd like to do apps and drinks down here, but readily admits he is more of a beer sipper than liquor tippler. (In his own distinctive words: "I don't know shit about cocktails.") We're sure there are some between-gigs bartenders out there who might want to consult ...
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