Lolies Ale House replaces McFadden's
The owner is a 23-year-old with a bar background and a psych degree.
The bar/nightclub business can be a rough-and-tumble game, but Leah Titus - a 23-year-old recent grad of Rutgers University - can handle it, says her father, Matt.
Leah Titus has several years of experience as a bartender at the Cherry Hill restaurant Zinburgers. And she was a psych major.
She is in her second month owning Lolies Ale House, which replaced the side by side McFadden's and Johnny Utahs (461 N. Third St.) in Northern Liberties.
Lolies, cleaned up and lightly refurbished (with parental assistance), is in soft-opening mode, operating Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights for now. The former Johnny Utahs side is being booked for events and private parties under the name Club Ion. Grand opening will be in early February.
Menu under chef Dustin Miller includes a burger, filet mignon sandwich, crabcakes and salads.
Matt Titus, meanwhile, has background in the bar business, having run the now-closed Stadium Sports Bar in Wildwood and Loretta's in North Wildwood, as well as Area 54, a long-ago laser tag arcade on the Wildwood boardwalk.