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New Year, New Hotspots ahead: Marbles 2.0, Imbibe. Plus, KOP Mall’s radical plan; Singing star nails it in Ardmore; Stoga grad grabs national headlines & more

January 11, 2018 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Well, whaddayaknow? Marbles is rolling back to Bryn Mawr.

Fifteen years after the Main Line mainstay near the movie theater went dark, it’s being resurrected – same spot, same owners, same tin ceiling.

The building’s been owned all along by local restaurateurs, George, Michel, Joseph Wakim and their sister, Fadia Wakim Abi-Khattar, who also own Aldar Bistro and Murray’s in Bala and Evviva in Narberth.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Antoinette's, Benj Pasek, Bryn Mawr, bus, Emily's Entourage, Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Imbibe, King of Prussia mall, LaBelle Nail Bar, Le Saigon, Lisa borowski, Main Line restaurants, Marbles, OurBus, Paoli Shopping Center, Patti LaBelle, Radnor Board of Commissioners, Radnor rail bridge accidents, Restore Cryosauna, Sean Weinberg, Steele Dossier, Stella Blu, Studio H Color and Design Group, Wakim

Bryn Mawr’s new BYOB & wine school; Dogs to horse around at Devon; Ardmore (& Target?) rising; Moms’ gifts & more

May 9, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The Conestoga High School hazing scandal was a big fat, tragic mess. But look at what Penn State and one of its fraternity presidents – a young man from Malvern – are dealing with.

Brendan Young, 21, an avid golfer whom you may have seen play at Chester Valley Golf Club or working at Golf Galaxy in Berwyn, is one of 18 Beta Theta Pi brothers facing criminal charges after a pledge died in their frat house in February.

In all 200 charges were lodged against the Penn State junior.

Another local defendant, Nick Kubera, who graduated from Downingtown H.S. last year, is facing 43.

While all 18 are in hot water, the charges are scalding for Young and some of his frat brothers: involuntary manslaughter and stuff like felony aggravated assault, tampering with evidence, and hazing.

Horrific.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ardmore, Autograph Brasserie, BYOBs, development, Devon Horse Show, Devon Horse Show Ladies Day, dog show, dogs, hat contest, local gifts, Main Line restaurants, parking, Restaurants, shore, Suburban Square, traffic, underage drinking, What a Good Dog

New Mistral, a bold move at KOP Mall; $$ for Stoga’s accused; Gravity Vault rocks Radnor; Queen of Soaps’ new memoir; Retail ups & downs & more

March 28, 2017 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

You’ll never guess what just blew in to the King of Prussia Mall.

Legitimately hip dining.

We kid you not.

Twice we visited the new Mistral – named for the stiff “mistral’ winds that clobber the coast of south France.

Twice, we were, well, blown away.

While the usual suspects – Cheesecake Factory, Grand Lux Café, California Pizza Kitchen – are corporate, aka manufactured for the masses, Mistral is:

  1. privately owned
  2. relatively intimate
  3. chef driven. (A fancy way of saying that an onsite chef creates and executes the menu. No corporate recipes.)
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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SHOP, STYLE Tagged With: Agnes Nixon, and the Great Comet of 1812, ballet, Broadway, Bryn Mawr, Comet, Conestoga 3 Gofundme, Conestoga Football, Conestoga hazing, dining, Eagle Village Shops, Gravity Vault, hardware stores, indoor rock gyms, Josh Groban, King of Prussia mall, locker room hazing, Main Line restaurants, Mistral, My Life to Live, Natasha, Pierre, Queen of soap operas, Radnor, Radnor High School, rock climbing, Rosemont, Saffron Indian Kitchen, Shoba Narayanan, Suburban Hardware, the Nutcracker, Vivi G. Shoes, Wayne shoestores

Dishing on Eatnic in Paoli, drug rehab in Devon, the area’s 2nd pro theatre group, Polka Dots lives on & SAVVY holiday shopping

December 13, 2016 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Ah, how to describe Paoli’s new Eatnic?

Sure, we could tell you it’s a farm-fresh, morning-til-night BYOB and be done with it.

But there’s more to it than that.

Much more.

Because Eatnic comes from the same fertile brain that 30 years ago spawned the world’s first Saladworks, and with it, the now ubiquitous fast-casual dining category.

And what John Scardapane did with Saladworks – more than 100 franchisees, many millions in sales (before selling in 2015) – he just might do with Eatnic.

And it all will have started here.

In little old Paoli.

Which means this modest eatery on a non-descript stretch of Route 30 is a pretty big deal,

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, SHOP, STYLE Tagged With: 100 Things to Do in Philadelphia Before You Die, Avery Graham, baby booties, Bella Tutto, Christmas gift guide, Craft Forms, David Yurman, deme, Devon, Devon Manor, discount designer jewlery, discount diamond jewelry, drug addicition, drug bust, drug treatment centers, Eatnic, foodie gifts, heroin addiction, Holiday Broadway Bash, Knauer Center for the Performing Arts, KVO Collections, luxury candles, Lynne Twaddle, Main Line drug busts, Main Line Holiday gift guide, Main Line restaurants, malvern businesses, Mason Dixon, musical theatre, neck creams, Paoli boutiques, Paoli restaurants, Paoli shopping, Philadelphia guidebooks, Polka Dots boutique, PucciManuli, Pyknic, Recovery Centers of America Main Line, Resident Theatre Company, Ringly, S'well, skincare, Skirt, smart jewelry, stainless steel water bottles, Susan Randels, Uptown Entertainment Alliance, Wayne Art Center, West Chester theatre, Zoet Bathlatier

La Colombe is here! More hip spots to follow in suddenly chic Bryn Mawr; A lupus miracle & Dad’s Day ideas

June 16, 2016 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Coffee geeks are bouncing off the walls this week.
And not just from caffeine.
They’re jazzed because the Main Line’s first La Colombe Café has opened.
At last.

The place is a knockout – a hip makeover of the old Bryn Mawr Garage with soaring ceilings, skylights, original brick and handcrafted wood seating.
Industrial chic done right.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, SHOP, SOUL, STYLE Tagged With: Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr Village, coffee, fashion boutiques, Father's Day, la colombe, lacrosse, lupus, Main Line restaurants, sarcoma, Todd Carmichael, Tredici, Zavino

The Goat’s Beard debuts in Wayne; Remembering Polka Dots’ Susan Randels & other news around town

June 9, 2016 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The Main Line never really warmed up to Xilantro, its cold, neon vibe better suited to South Beach than Central Wayne.

But its North Wayne successor, the new Goat’s Beard, well, he’s a whole ’nother animal.

Warm. Fuzzy. Friendly.

Upscale but not uppity.

It helps, too, that the guys behind the Goat are local lads Sean Coyle and Mike “Mac” MacCrory, pals since their Malvern Prep days.

The food biz in his blood, Sean handles operations. (His parents had the TexMex mainstay Binni & Flynn’s; his sister, Meridith, owns Aneu Catering and Paoli’s Fresh Ideas Market.)

Mac’s the money guy – commercial real estate exec by day, goat-herder by night.

The two buddies think they’re onto something.

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Filed Under: BODY & SOUL, BUZZ, EAT, PLAY, STYLE Tagged With: Devon Ladies Day, gastropubs, Jim Sanders, Main Line restaurants, Polka Dots, quadriplegic, seminary, state stores, Susan Randels, The Goat's Beard, Wayne

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