White Dog Cafe, a landmark restaurant founded in Philadelphia, is opening its fourth branch on Saturday in a Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, shopping center.
The restaurant is in the Shoppes at Brinton Lake at 981 Baltimore Pike, a few miles from the Delaware state line. It opens at 4 p.m. Saturday for dinner.
The flagship White Dog Cafe was created in a historic Victorian brownstone in 1983 by Judy Wicks in Philadelphia's University City. The restaurant, one of the pioneers of the farm-to-table movement, always has featured seasonal and local ingredients.
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White Dog became known for purchasing sustainably grown produce from local family farmers, and humanely and naturally raised meat, poultry and eggs, sustainably harvested fish, and fair trade coffee and tea along with flavorings and spices.
The restaurant's name comes from the former resident of the brownstone who had a pet white dog.
Wicks was the co-author in 1998 of the "White Dog Cafe Cookbook: Multicultural Recipes and Tales of Adventure from Philadelphia’s Revolutionary Restaurant." In 2005, she received the James Beard Foundation's Humanitarian of the Year award.
Wicks sold the restaurant in 2009.
White Dog is now part of Fearless Restaurants, run by restaurateur Marty Grims and his daughter Sydney Grims, and it has two additional Pennsylvania locations in Haverford and Wayne.
Fearless Restaurants also own the iconic Moshulu Restaurant on Penn's Landing in Philadelphia.
As its name implies, all White Dog Cafe locations celebrate canines.
The indoor, 15-seat bar area, known as the Den, at the new Glen Mills site has a galley of 45 commissioned dog portraits by artist Jay McClellan.
Customers can purchase a painting to immortalize their favorite pup which will hang in the restaurant. There are 15 spots available with prices ranging from $960 to $1,200.
McClellan will give anyone purchasing a painting the original drawing, a $250 value. Paintings hanging in White Dog Glen Mills will display a small brass plate on each frame with the dog’s name and hometown.
McClellan is donating half of the fee for each of the paintings to Brandywine Valley SPCA and Alpha Bravo Canine.
The dog theme continues with original prints of “best in show dogs” from the 1940s and handmade brass dog-shaped sconces on the walls. The concrete bar has brass Golden Retriever paw prints.
White Dog has an outdoor dining area with 104 seats — either under an illuminated pergola or near a water feature. It also has 15 seats at the outdoor bar.
Seating inside includes 180 seats at black marble tables and the dining area has a large fireplace.
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The menu includes Kennett Square mushroom soup, $10; fried pickles, $7; butternut squash ravioli, $24; spicy lamb Bolognese, $24; whole grilled rainbow trout, $28; and beef short rib with red wine glaze, $33.
The restaurant is open for lunch, dinner, happy hour, and Saturday and Sunday brunch.
Due to limited seating, because of the coronavirus pandemic, the restaurant asks patrons to limit their dining stay to 1 1/2 hours.
Call (484) 842-1757 for more information or visit whitedog.com/contact/
Contact Patricia Talorico at (302) 324-2861 or ptalorico@delawareonline.com and on Twitter @pattytalorico
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