Iron Hill's first Philly venture
The suburban brewpub chain tries the big city
Iron Hill's first Philly venture
Joseph N. DiStefano
Delaware-based suburban brewpup chain Iron Hill plans its ninth location and its first inside Philadelphia city limits at 8400 Germantown Ave., former Express store site, in Chestnut Hill, next Wednesday Jan. 4. Owners Kevin Finn, Kevin Davies and Mark Edelson plan to open the restaurant at 4 pm in time for the dinner rush. It's the chain's ninth location, with five others in PA, two in DE, one in NJ.
Iron Hill takes its name from the landmark Appalachian outcrop (complete with state park and Revolutionary War-era mine) that greets northbound drivers on I-95 as the blow through the state line tollbooths at the Maryland border, not far from Iron Hill's original home in University of Delaware student-ridden Newark, Del.
What would really be great is if Victory or Dogfish brought a brew pub here.— Earl J- Victory is opening one at Philly Live I believe.— dr_gingivitis
- Is this how low Philadelphia business has fallen? A taproom opens and it's headline news. When I was a lad there was a taproom on every corner.— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
- This isn't just a tap room, it's a micro-brewery. If you can believe it, this counts as manufacturing returning to the city.— myawesomebike
- Chestnut Hill? That's not part of Philadelphia!Ask anyone who lives there? They will swear they don't even though they have a zip code that starts with 191--.Micro Brewery is a fancy word for taproom by definition.
A room in which alcoholic drinks, esp. beer, are available on tap.— vrb1955 - A new brewpub in Philly from a successful chain of brewpubs means more jobs created.— chuckevans
