Friday

Fish has added a late night lounge menu to its offerings. It’s available every night till 1am. Late night lobster grilled cheese. That could happen.

Saturday

Rain or shine the Bloktoberfest is a go, so stop over for a beer and some of the city’s best food trucks.

In New Jersey Flying Fish is welcoming Iron Hill to the state with a Brewers Reserve event featuring beers from the two brewers at the Iron Shade in Maple Shade. Starts at 1pm.

In the evening there are a few tickets remaining to Spinal Tapas’ Must Eats: The Event at Philly KitchenShare. Order them up right here.

Sunday

Resurrection Ale House is kicking of its brunch this weekend. Brunch is served on both Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 3pm. Stop in early to try a taste of Schneider Weise pouring from a wooden cask.

Resurrection Ale House has been open a few weeks now, long enough for blogging types to check it out.

Living on the Vedge deals with a crazy in order to try the roasted radicchio and gorgonzola biscotti. [Living on the Vedge]

It’s the pancetta with crab, peas and house-made fettucini that catches the fancy of the Beer/Pork Lass. On the beer side she tries the Schlenkerla Helles, a smoked golden lager from Bamburg Germany. [Beer Lass]

Veggicurious picks the pickle plate and roasted miatake mushroom to take for a spin. [Veggicurious]

In Other Resurrection Ale House News

Every Monday Resurrection is hosting a Mom + Me Happy Hour from 1 to 3pm. That’s a buck off beers when you bring your baby plus a little networking, socializing and friend-making.

Brunch will begin next weekend, the 24th and 25th of October. To celebrate the kickoff, there will be a special wooden cask of Schneider Weisse pouring off the edge of the bar.

Resurrection Ale House [Official Site]

Resurrection Ale House opens tomorrow at 5 at the corner of Grays Ferry and Catharine. Menu samples will be available with the still under wraps full menu starting Thursday at noon. The Ale House promises to be a beer bistro for the G-Ho/Center City South neighborhood.

The Owners

• Leigh Maida and Brendan Hartranft are opening their third establishment in under two years.
  • “Port Fishington’s” Memphis Taproom (#11 in the Foobooz Top 50 Bars)
  • West Philadelphia’s Local 44 (#31)
• Brendan is known to many as “Spanky” from Nodding Head where he was a long time bartender.

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Mark your calendar, Resurrection Ale House will be opening Wednesday, September 23 at 5pm.

The Grays Ferry Avenue beer bistro is brought to you by the folks behind the Memphis Taproom and Local 44 and promises to be a welcome addition to the neighborhood.

Opening night will feature a sneak preview of the menu with the following day delivering the full menu.

See you there!

Resurrection Ale House [Official Site]

Over the past week or so details have been coming out on the soon to open Resurrection Ale House on Grays Ferry Avenue.

The menu by chef Joe Chmiko has interesting seasonal items like watermelon, cucumber and mixed basil salad, hoisin braised pork ribs and twice fried chicken with watermelon and salted honey.

The bottled beer list will contain a unique concentration of Belgian Lambics plus owner Brendan Hartranft’s finely picked selection of other Belgians and quizzically, Natty Bo .

The opening is tentatively set for the September 9th but as Hartranft told Michael Klein,  he’s got “a punch list as long as my arm.”

When they do open though they will have a keg of Brewers Arts Resurrection Ale which they picked up themselves from the Baltimore brewery.

Resurrection, a Philadelphia Ale House. Soon. [Jack Curtin]
Sneak Peek at Resurrection Ale House Menu [Grub Street]
Dinging Bites [The Insider]
Resurrection Ale House [Official Site]

The fondly regarded triumvirate of Fond are preparing to open before the end of August. Meal Ticket has their menu. [Meal Ticket]

Michael Klein has an early look at the forthcoming Parker’s Prime from Win Signature Restaurants. The Newtown Square steakhouse and more is aiming for a Sept. 1 opening. [The Insider]

Peek-a-boo! Grub Street gets a sneak peek of Resurrection Ale House’s menu. [Grub Street]

Koo Zee Doo, it’s the phonetic spelling of cozido a Portuguesa, it’s also the name of David Gilberg’s and wife Carla Goncalves’s new Northern Liberties BYOB. [The Insider]

Mezza Luna plans to open in its new space today for dinner. Why did they move? Well two Common Pleas Court filings might shed some light. [The Insider]

Today, The Bite eagerly looks forward to some new restaurants opening in the coming weeks.

• Kong (August 15th)
• Village Whiskey (Late August)
• Fish (September 9)
• Resurrection Ale House (Early September)
• Rubb (Fall)

As summer closes, new doors opening [Metro Philadelphia]

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]

We’ve received word from Leigh Maida that she and Brendan Hartranft of Memphis Taproom and Local 44 are set to open their third bar. Resurrection Ale House will take over Yello’Bar in September on Grays Ferry Avenue.

The spot will focus more on food than their other two spots, filling a glaring need in the neighborhood. But don’t take our word for it, check out Leigh’s words below.

The name will be Resurrection Ale House, and we’re hammering out a menu now that we think fills a gap in the neighborhood, casual, beer-centric, someplace you can feel like a grown up, and be catered to with care, but not have to spend a ton of money to feel like you got some real value out of your experience. We’re focused (as always) on a stellar craft beer list, but we’re equally focused this time on the dining side of things too. For now we’re sort of working under the term “beer bistro” as a guiding principle, for the menu, the decor, the over all vibe of the place. We’re hoping for the same kinds of laid back, food and beer savvy, mixed-bag of cool guests that we get to meet at Memphis and Local 44.

Resurrection Ale House [Official Site]