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Much ado about Manayunk: Agiato, Agiato Bread Company, Main Street Market, Rubb and a new bar
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Much ado about Manayunk: Agiato, Agiato Bread Company, Main Street Market, Rubb and a new bar
Meal Ticket touched base with developer Robert Nydick of Belvedere Restaurant Group for updates on the laundry list of projects they've got going on and around Main Street Manayunk. There are a lot of them!
- Main Street Market (4345 Main St.) will be a neighborhood grocery stop akin to a Green Aisle or Healthy Bites ToGo, except for Yunkers. It'll feature a butcher doing meats and poultry, plus local, sustainable produce and products. They're about to start construction.
- Agiato (4359 Main St.), chef Joseph Scarpone's Italian wine bar, paninoteca and small-plater, was originally up for a fall '09 opening. They've hit delays due to a zoning issue. The city Zoning Board of Adjustment originally ruled in the restaurant's favor for a use change that would allow the space to stay open as late as 2 a.m., but neighbors appealed, requesting they rejigger proposed hours to close no later than 11. The ZBA is currently processing the appeal; we should know more in a few weeks' time.
- Agiato Bread Company, right down the block from Agiato at 4351 Main Street, is about two weeks away from having its ovens up and running (delays due to snow). This bakery, run by Jim McAleese (the baker responsible for all the bready goodness at Parc) will provide bread and breakfast pastries for Agiato, but it'll also have a small walk-up bakery window for retail. "Best sticky bun in Philadelphia," promises McAleese.
- Not too much to report on Rubb (4445 Main St.), to which chef Matthew Levin was originally attached. (He's now working on something at Fifth and Bainbridge.) Another zoning holdup here: Neighbors have appealed based on hours of operation, according to Nydick. Once that's all settled, they'll begin looking for a chef/proprietor to run the barbecue joint.
- Terrace Taproom is the name of the craft beer bar Nydick and his partner Richard Rivera recently introduced in what was the neighborhood bar Grille's at the corner of Terrace and Salaignac. Right now they have six taps (Yuengling, Yards, Victory, Magic Hat, Dogfish Head and Allagash), plus a solid bottle selection (check out a PDF of the beer list). Food's simple, as there's no kitchen: dollar dogs, $5 roast beef and roast pork sandwiches, sausage and peppers. They open every day at 11 a.m., and to promote the new beer program, they're doing a sweet happy hour: half off everything at the bar weekdays from 5 to 7.
[...] Much ado about Manayunk: Agiato, Agiato Bread Company, Main Street Market, Rubb and a new bar [Meal Ticket] [...]
[...] The projects are ramping up for Belvedere Restaurant Group,the developers working on a number of projects in and around Manayunk. [...]
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