Consider this your guide to all the new restaurants, bars, and cafes, that have opened recently. Here’s a roundup of the restaurants and bars that opened in March 2025. This list will be updated monthly. If there’s an opening in your neighborhood that we’ve missed, let us know at philly@eater.com.
Tommy Bahama Marlin Bar
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Tropical king Tommy Bahama debuts a big new bar inside the King of Prussia Mall on Wednesday, March 19. For food, there’s coconut shrimp, blackened mahi mahi tacos, sliders, and Key Lime pie to go along with Island Rum drinks, martinis, wine, beer, and spirit-free cocktails. An “island time” happy hour runs 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily, with live music most evenings. Online ordering is available, too. An attached retail store is stocked with Tommy Bahama swimsuits, sportswear, and home decor. The 10,000 square-foot space is also the first Tommy Bahama Marlin Bar located in an enclosed shopping center. 160 North Gulph Road, King of Prussia
Lion Bar
Chinatown scored a soccer-centric sports pub called Lion Bar on Thursday, March 13 with 35 TVs, General Tso’s nachos, daily deals, and kitchen open until midnight. From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. (and Sunday to Thursday from 10 p.m. to midnight), load up on $5 bar bites like waffle fries, mozz sticks, chili dogs, cheesesteak egg rolls, and shrimp and pork wontons. Happy hour also spotlights $8 cocktails like the “Adios Mother F*ucker,” a marg, and espresso martini, plus $3 beers and $5 house wines. Weekday happenings include 50-cent wings on Thursday nights and Wednesday karaoke sessions. Open at 7 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday to catch Premier League matches going on across the pond. To celebrate March Madness, there’s a crazy $100,000 prize up for grabs (enter by March 20). 1021 Arch Street
President’s Room at Palizzi Social Club
Members-only Palizzi Social Club, the speakeasy-style bar and restaurant set in a South Philly row home since 1918, tacked on a new martini lounge this month. Second-story President’s Room is only open on Fridays and Saturdays from 6 p.m. to midnight. The cocktail-only counterpart to its Italian-American restaurant below opens with clarified dirty martinis with a gorgonzola-stuffed olive. For access, members of two years or more must upgrade their membership card with a gold presidential seal sold by its doorman. Limited reservations are available through Resy and all other seating will be on a first-come first-served basis. Palizzi, named after an Italian painter, opened as a gathering spot for immigrants from the town of Vasto in Italy’s Abruzzo region. 1408 S. 12th Street
Supérette
Supérette, a wine bar, market, and bottle shop, debuted on Friday, March 7 in the space that formerly housed beloved butcher Primal Supply Meats. The female-owned business from Chloé Grigri is styled after a French mini-mart at the corner of Cross Street and East Passyunk Avenue. Supérette offers wines by the glass and bottle alongside a list of beers, cocktails, and zero-proof options. For food, there’s charcuterie boards, sandwiches, bistro favorites like steak tartare and an escargot tartlet. Bad Baguette Hospitality is behind a growing collection of local wine bars like The Good King Tavern and Le Caveau in Bella Vista, and Superfolie in Rittenhouse. 1538 East Passyunk Avenue
Middle Child
Popular Philly restaurant Middle Child brings its daytime lineup of sandwiches, eggy breakfast burritos, and Elixr Coffee-fueled drinks to the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL). It’s the second location of Middle Child’s sit-down restaurant Middle Child Clubhouse, a Fishtown full-service offshoot of the sandwich shop Middle Child that first opened in Midtown Village. This outpost of Middle Child Clubhouse is found in the brand-new Chase Sapphire Lounge by the Club, which means it’s only open to people who have the credit card.
Hannah K Cafe
Point Breeze welcomed a new Vietnamese breakfast place in late February. Hannah K Cafe comes from the team behind morning staple TBD in Graduate Hospital. The much-larger sibling with 40 seats features familiar favorites like banh mi, banana cakes with chocolate chips, and big coffee selection. 1200 Point Breeze Avenue
