Table Talk | A new new American in Honey Brook

Hard to believe that Dave Magrogan has been in the restaurant business only 41/2 years.

Magrogan, a chiropractor by training, built six Kildare's pubs. He branched out last year with a different concept, Doc Magrogan's Oyster House in downtown West Chester. His latest project - for which he ventured out into the hinterlands (near Chester County's border with Lancaster, at Routes 322 and 10) - is Grady David's (4690 Horseshoe Pike, Honey Brook, 610-273-9000).

Grady David's, named after his baby son, is a spacious operation (main dining room, bar, raw bar, downstairs game room, lounge) set up in the old Waynebrook Inn, being restored.

The comfy main dining room is done up in fieldstone and wood, and a roaring wood-burning oven is set up behind the bar. John Ammen's menu is new American, focusing on locally raised ingredients. Specialties include flatbreads and pizzas and grilled meats; most entrees are under $20. It's open nightly weekdays, and from lunchtime through late night on Saturdays and Sundays.

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Robert Sanabria reports a Nov. 24 grand opening for Javier, his contemporary BYOB at 208 Kings Highway in Haddonfield (856-428-4220), filling the old Salsarita's space. Javier will be a sibling of Word of Mouth in Collingswood. A second Word of Mouth, in Pitman, is now on tap for January.

Tinto - the Jose Garces-owned Basque newcomer on 20th Street near Sansom - has made Gayot's list of top U.S. newcomers. Rae - the Daniel Stern-owned New American yearling in the Circa Centre - made John Mariani's top-newcomer list in Esquire mag.

Robert Lhulier, most recently of Harry's Savoy Grill and formerly of the Chef's Table and Deep Blue, has joined downtown Wilmington's Domaine Hudson as co-executive chef with Jason Barrowcliff. The restaurant, which plans to start lunch in January, will honor gift cards issued by Lhulier's now-shuttered the Chef's Table at the David Finney Inn.

With Minar Palace opening in January at 1304 Walnut, that will make four Indian restaurants within a block and a half - counting New Samosa (1214 Walnut St.), Passage to India (1320 Walnut St.), plus Bindi (coming soon to 105 S. 13th St.) "India-ana!" exclaimed colleague Steven Rea, a curry-phile.