Cooper’s Brick Oven Wine Bar, the wine bar by Jake’s owner Bruce Cooper is looking to open within a month in Manayunk. [Food and Drinq]

Ristorante Valentino at Pine and Juniper has taken on a new partner, Nicholas Maldonado who was the original GM at Bar Ferdinand. The place has been revamped and a liquor license is in their future. [Feeding Frenzy, City Paper]

Privé is just days away and Michael klein has a sneak preview of the lounge and menu. [Food and Drinq]

O’Neals Pub on 3rd has revamped their outdoor patio into a bit of a beer garden. There will even be a TV for sports in the great outdoors. [Feeding Frenzy, City Paper]

The M-Room is adding dinner to its menu. Stuffed clams with chorizo, London Broil with sherry mushroom Espagnole sauce, Texas BBQ pulled pork Po-Bo and New York Strip are among the highlights of a menu that tops out at $15.95. [The Clog]

Twenty21 calls it quits after Friday night. What was going to be a renovation has become a closure as financing for the overhaul fell through. [Food and Drinq]

Elsewhere in the last call department tomorrow night is the last for Melograno at their 22nd and Spruce location. They’re moving to 2010 Sansom Street and Mémé is moving in to the Melograno space. [Table Talk, Philadelphia Inquirer] July 27th, not June 27th.

Every Friday night, Twenty21 welcomes the weekend with a three course dinner for $35. Choose soup or salad, any entree from the dinner menu, and any dessert.

Almost as good, get your parking validated for 4 hours after 5 PM at the Commerce Square Parking Garage.

Twenty21 [Official Site]

Late this summer look for watermelon on local menus.

At Audrey Claire near Rittenhouse Square, chef de cuisine Greg Garbacz tops watermelon chunks with crumbled Grana Padano cheese, thin-sliced red onion, and fresh mint. At Twenty21 in Commerce Square, sous chef Colin Leary has offered watermelon salad on his $24 lunch prix-fixe: dice-size cubes of melon and fried, panko-crusted puffs of goat cheese in a sweet sauce including shallots, mint and lavender, all on an oversize lettuce leaf.

GoodTaste – Watermelon salad [Philadelphia Inquirer]

Joe Sixpack visits Twenty21 and sees how beer’s place on the culinary ladder is changing.

For those who are utterly convinced that it doesn’t get any better than beer and pretzels, allow me point you in the direction of Twenty21, the modern- looking bistro hidden at the base of one of those ugly office buildings on West Market Street in Center City.

Its new flight of specialty beers and appetizers is part of an important evolution that could redefine how Americans regard beer.

Dynamic duo at Twenty21: Fine beer with fine appetizers [Joe Sixpack]