Manayunk is getting a couple of new restaurants sure to generate some buzz. Former Sovalo head, Joseph Scarpone is opening a wine and panini bar called agiato. Ex Lacroix chef Matt Levin is setting up a barbecue restaurant on Main Street that will be called Rubb. [The Insider]

Resurrection Ale House names Union Trust alum Joe Chmiko as its chef. [Meal Ticket]

Drywall was recently delivered for Jolly’s Dueling Piano Bar, the latest incarnation of the piano bar that is aiming to open at 20th and Chestnut in mid-September. [Facebook]

Daniel Stern spills some beans about his two new restaurants, R2L and MidAtlantic. [Meal Ticket]

D.P. Dough is looking to sell its first calzone somewhere between August 10th and 19th. [DP Dough]

Pickled Heron was originally aiming for a spring opening. Now the French Bistro on Frankford Ave is aiming for late September. [Meal Ticket]

15% off is a good way to kickstart business. That’s the plan at Sakana Sushi Cafe. [Meal Ticket]

Spamps in Conshohocken is taking over Viggiano’s restaurant for a venture to be called Spampinato’s Italian restaurant. [The Insider]

Yogorino opened over the weekend at 20th and Locust. There’s just one flavor for now and for the germaphobes, the toppings are kept behind the counter out of the reach of the unwashed masses.

The popular Tiffin is adding a third location, this one in Elkins Park. Additionally, Tiffin Etc., the Indian pizzeria is about 3 weeks out. [The Insider]

Plenty of restaurant slippages in Michael Klein’s restaurant openings update. Village Whiskey and Pickled Heron are now looking at late summer (August). And the Tap House is saying October. [The Insider]

Leila Cafe is serving up Middle Eastern food at the former Wasabi House at 13th and Pine. [Meal Ticket]

The former Kami Sushi at 1526 Sansom now has a sign in the window promising Sushi Cafe is coming soon.

Akoya, the restaurant portion of Pearl is making like Pearl and taking the rest of the summer off. [The Insider]

This week the Bite spotlights what’s going on in the river ward neighborhoods of Port Richmond, Kensington and Fishtown including a new restaurant, Pickled Heron and a restaurant week.

River Wards Step Up [Metro Philadelphia]

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]