Neil Stein talks to Dan Gross, noting the wine wasn’t for him, and he’s still working on a restaurant at the Morris Hotel near Washington Square and a possible conglomeration with developer Carl Dranoff on South Broad. Dranoff has a green building planned for Broad and Bainbridge. [Philadelphia Daily News]

11th and Washington is set to be the location of Wokano, a 200-seat Chinese restaurant set to open “no later than the first of September.” [Feeding Frenzy, City Paper]

Newbold has a new bar. The former Noah’s Ark has been replaced by Station Bar & Grill. The new spot offers a serious beer and food menu. The chef wants to keep his name out of the press, who the devil could he be? [Bite This]

Penn’s campus will be getting another decadent offering to go with their soon to open Naked Chocolate Cafe. The third Capogiro will be opening in the Radian building at 39th and Walnut. Capogiro is also getting a 15,000 sqft production kitchen. We hear that will be in East Falls. [Food and Drinq]

We can just imagine the Citizens Bank Park peeps showing PETA around the ballpark trying to distract them from the cheesesteaks and Schmidters. Maybe it was how they explained no fries were injured in the production of Chickie’s and Pete’s crab fries. It must work because for the second straight year PETA has named CBP tops in Vegetarian-Friendly-Ballparks. [PETA]

White table cloth dining on Frankford between Susquehanna and Dauphin? That’s the plan at Pickled Heron. A 50-seater run by two Ritz-Carlton alums hoping to open in November. [Food and Drinq]

Joseph Poon is back, this time at 108 Chestnut Street with Joe’s Peking Duck Original 1984. Poon was originally looking at the old Griffin Cafe on the 200 block but structural problems ended that idea. [Food and Drinq]

Today we take a look at some places opening Old City and Northern Liberties.

Eulogy’s second spot is opening just a block from the original at 33 S 3rd Street. The Beneluxx Tasting Room will take over what was A Bar Named Sue and SoMa.

More after the jump.

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Michael Klein hits the nail on the head regarding biggest difference about the new Silk City, “it’s clean.” Brunch is coming soon and there are plans to turn the side and back yards into a beer garden. [Table Talk, Philadelphia Inquirer]

Cacia’s Bakery has opened at 719 N 2nd Street and is serving up tomato pie, meatballs, eggplant parmesan and chicken cutlets. [Feeding Frenzy, City Paper]

Joseph Poon is looking to open a restaurant in Old City at the old Griffin Cafe. The opening is at least 6 months out. [Feeding Frenzy, City Paper]

Felicia’s at 11th and Ellsworth and Restaurant M on Eighth Street between Walnut and Locust have both closed. [Inqlings, Philadelphia Inquirer]