It's a BYO, open for lunch and dinner Tuesdays through Saturdays, with a new-American menu featuring locally sourced and organic ingredients. There's also a coffee bar. A kid's menu, including ants on a log, is offered at lunch. Figure on $6 to $14 to for lunch entrees/sandwiches, and $17 (chicken) to $26 (lamb chops) for dinner entrees. Menu is at www.twelvesgrill.com.
A look at openings
The stock market is tanking and existing restaurants are feeling the pinch of higher prices and diminished customer counts. Yet the openings keep coming - for now, anyway. A peek at projects in the works for next year shows comparatively few big-budget operations.
Here are a few September-October openings:
Melograno should be open right about now in its new location at 2012 Sansom St.
Mix, the salad/brick-oven pizzeria/bar at the RiverWest condos (21st and Chestnut Streets, is due to open today.
H.I. Rib & Co., the casual American, is due to open in the former Lone Star at 505 W. Ridge Pike in Conshohocken on Monday.
El Fuego's second location, at 2104 Chestnut St., is up for Monday.
Lucky 13, a pub/hangout filling the spot that was Vincenzo's at 1820 S. 13th St., should be open within two weeks. Owner Clark Newman, a longtime barkeep, is working with chef Benjamin Johnson, last at the Plough & the Stars.
Joe's Peking Duck has a Sept. 28 date for 108 Chestnut St.
Izumi, the Japanese BYO at 1601 E. Passyunk Ave. from Lynn Rinaldi of the nearby Paradiso's, is looking at the last week of September.
Mémé, the rustic American from chef David Katz at 2201 Spruce St., is due Sept. 27-ish.
