Whatever The Lola Bean Wants, The Lola Bean Gets
Erica Zito and Mary Button spent three years planning and saving before opening The Lola Bean last September at 1325 Frankford Avenue in Fishtown. To create the modern shop the way Zito and Button...
View ArticleLa Colombe Opens Its Doors In Dilworth Plaza
La Colombe opened its second Philadelphia cafe on Tuesday at 1414 South Penn Square, on the ground floor of the Residences at the Ritz-Carlton in Dilworth Plaza. Perfect for the business men and women...
View ArticleCoffee Switcheroo at Rittenhouse Square
For seventeen years, Tuscany Cafe held down the fort on the southwest corner of W. Rittenhouse Sq. & Locust St., in the 222 Rittenhouse building. Located directly across the street from Rittenhouse...
View ArticleToo Much Coffee on the Square?
Just a couple of weeks ago, Cafe L’Aube opened a new location on the 2000 block of Washington Avenue, in the lobby of the excellent new NextFab Studio. You may recall, this creperie/cafe/coffee roaster...
View ArticleLa Colombe Planning Next Generation Cafe and Distillery on Frankford Avenue
La Colombe co-founder Todd Carmichael was raised in Port Richmond and is now an international businessman, as well as the first American explorer to cross Antarctica to the South Pole, alone, on foot,...
View ArticleVacant Former Bar on Frankford Avenue Should Soon Get Fixed Up
1523 Frankford Ave. has sat vacant for several years, with the former pub nearly getting sold last year at sheriff’s sale due to tax delinquency. New owners have stepped forward, however, and last...
View ArticleJoanie Loves Chachi and Fishtown Loves La Colombe
Last week, we gave you the heads up that La Colombe was planning a next generation cafe, a distillery, and a bakery in a large space on Frankford Avenue. Last night, the building’s owner and La Colombe...
View ArticleAnother New Business Will Soon Open on Frankford Avenue
Frankford Avenue in Fishtown has been filling in with so many new businesses over the past few years, and even more so in the past six months, that soon it might look like the South Street West. Today,...
View ArticleCorner Retail Space for Rent on Frankford Ave. in Recently Renovated Building
As Frankford Avenue continues to turn over, retail opportunities continue to crop up. One example is a retail space at 1600 Frankford Ave. which was renovated this year to install larger windows and...
View ArticleTons of New Buildings on a Block of Frankford Ave.
Along Frankford Avenue, redevelopment has been filling in parcels one by one like dominoes, as each new project seems to feed into the next. Johnny Brenda’s was a pioneer, anchoring Frankford Avenue at...
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