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New casual eats – b.good Wynnewood & MOD Pizza Wayne – plus SAVVY’s first shoutouts

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B.good, a fast-food joint catering to our better angels, has descended upon the Main Line. Not only is its first restaurant now open in Wynnewood Square, it’s also dispatching this little puppy to serve up free smoothies to Main Line businesses this month. (Pitch a visit to your workplace via [email protected].)

B.good likes to brag A LOT about how its entire menu – house-ground burgers, oven-finished fries, kale and grain bowls, salads, sides, smoothies and shakes – comes from “local farms that support humane, natural and responsible growing.”  Wall murals introduce you to virtuous guys like Farmer Rich from South Jersey.

Two big “reveals” – The Playground in AC and Duportail House in Chesterbrook

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It’s show time, folks. The Playground – Gladwyne developer Bart Blatstein’s big-gamble makeover of Caesar’s Pier Shops – officially opens in Atlantic City tonight.

Bart invited hundreds of his besties – me among them (although we hadn’t yet met) – to monkey around in The Playground at a VIP preview last night.

Beachy keen.

With six distinct live music venues under one roof, The Playground’s T Street is like your local multiplex: if you don’t like what’s playing in one spot, mosey on over to the next. (The walls are soundproof!)

Perfect for pre-gaming (and social climbing?) is the central Monkey Bar.

Beautycounter has the Main Line buzzing – but take away my Retin-A? No way!

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Just when I start giving serious thought to switching from Ban to a “natural deodorant” comes word I should pitch every stinkin’ beauty product in my bathroom.

Oy.

That word comes from Beautycounter, the “safe” products line that just paid the Main Line its first official visit.

About 80 local lovelies showed up at Radnor’s Avenue Kitchen the other night for a taste of Beautycounter culture.

Guess what’s coming to the old Waterloo Gardens? (No, it’s not Devon Yard – yet)

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While Easttown Township mulls over Urban Outfitters’ latest plans for Devon Yard, another fashion enterprise is already moving in.

SAVVY Main Line has learned that the area’s biggest designer warehouse sale this side of Lilly Pulitzer will take place in the old Waterloo building this fall – marking the first time the lights will have been turned on since July 2012.

Setting up shop will be the Community Clothes Charity (CCC), a venerable non-profit that sells brand new and barely touched designer duds at super-low prices every October, with proceeds going to designated charities.

Wayne’s Valley Forge Flowers to sprout another shoot: The Cottage

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Last fall brought us The Barn. Next spring comes The Cottage.

Valley Forge Flowers – that bustling shop-and-sip mecca in Wayne’s Eagle Village Shops – is on the move again.

Barbara King, VFF’s Queen Bee (and I do mean that kindly – “b” as in b-u-s-y) tells SAVVY that VFF is taking over the building that houses The Area Rug (now closed) and The Village Salon (relocating). The new venture, The Cottage, will trade in two old-timey treats: antiques and ice cream.

Coming soon to a park near you (Valley Forge!) – a hip ’n historic wedding venue

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I was pedaling to the park the other day and did a double take at this big old historic house on Yellow Springs Road near the covered bridge.

Turns out the place is about to become Party Central.

A popular backdrop for goo-goo-eyed engagement photos, the park is now officially getting in the wedding business, leasing an estate that had fallen into genteel decay to two Phoenixville guys: Robert Ryan Catering and Design and The Party Center.

The 5,000 sq. ft. home and gardens were once home to Philander Chase Knox, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State. (Is it bad luck that knots will be tied at old Philander’s place?)

SAVVY shorts: White Dog unleashed in Haverford; Devon Horse Show reins triumphant

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Hot dawg! (Or Haute Dog, perhaps?)

My husband and I chowed down at the new White Dog Café in Haverford Square Saturday night – a top-to-tail overhaul of the former Du Jour Market.

Humanely raised, sustainable and sourced within 50 miles, the grub was doggone good.

But what truly had us panting was the inspired doggie décor.

Call it Marty’s Adventures in WoofWoofland (“Marty” being owner Marty Grims). White Dog Haverford is a whimsical world where kitchen colanders become chandeliers