A New Izakaya and Sushi Restaurant Opens in Fishtown

Happy Monday, buckaroos, and welcome back to our Monday round-up. This week, we’ve got updates on a couple of big projects happening in Philly and some news from the neighborhoods. So let’s kick things off with the biggest story of the week, happening right now in Fishtown.

Izakaya by Yanaga

Remember last week when we were talking about the surprise launch of GLU Hospitality’s Leda and the Swan pop-up in NoLibs? It was a complicated, cocktail-soaked story of nested openings and pop-ups, all designed to support and promote each other as GLU went into a whirlwind of new projects, all launching, debuting or re-opening right around the same time. And right at the very end, I hinted that they had a new restaurant getting ready to open in Fishtown, but that I’d be saving that news for later.

Well, welcome to later.