Executive chefs Mike Sultan and Carolyn Nguyen of Revolution Taco, 33rd Street Hospitality Catering and Say Cheese Philly recently announced a new partnership with Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company. The duo will debut the 33rd Street Hospitality Kitchen at Neshaminy’s newly opened Borough Brewhouse in Jenkintown. The kitchen will serve up a full menu of upscale pub fare paired with a selection of 30 drafts, including six beers crafted on location.
Food selections will include new dishes designed specially for the Jenkintown kitchen, as well as several signature dishes from the duo’s other restaurant and food trucks. Kitchen service launched on July 5 with dinner service offered Wednesdays through Sundays, and expanded days and hours of operation are expected in the fall. Table reservations for the 149-seat bar and dining room will be available later this summer.
“We have had a great relationship with Neshaminy Creek for the last five years,” said Sultan. “We’ve done catering for them, our trucks have been at the brewery and we partner together every year for the Brewer’s Plate competition. Plus, we recently figured out that about 15 years ago, one of the Neshaminy Creek owners worked for the same chef that gave me my start. We only missed working together by a couple of months.”
“We love Mike and Carolyn’s food and felt like it was a perfect combo with our beers,” said Neshaminy co-owner Jeremy Myers. “Our motto is ‘Brew Anything,’ so you’ll see a lot of different styles on tap and brewed on location. The food menu was designed with that motto in mind—with dishes to pair with a diverse variety of styles.”
Neshaminy Creek’s Borough Brewhouse opened in May with a limited beer selection and no food service. The building was formerly the Guild Hall Brewing Co. and seats 21 at the expansive bar, 96 guests in the downstairs dining room and 32 in the upstairs dining room. The addition of the 33rd Street Hospitality Kitchen will help complete the final phase of the Borough Brewhouse project and make it the first full-service entity operated by Neshaminy Creek.
Neshaminy veteran and general manager Christen Deerwester will manage the Borough Brewhouse, which is expected to create 28 to 40 new jobs, and even more in the future.
At the bar, look for 30 total taps pouring. Six will be dedicated to beer brewed on-site, one to cider from Stone & Key, one to mead from Haymaker and two to guest Pennsylvania breweries that will rotate each month. The remaining 20 will be beers from Neshaminy Creek’s main production facility in Croydon. On-site brewing is planned to start in the next few months.
“There is a lack of craft beer being brewed in Jenkintown and the surrounding area, and we got a lot of feedback from locals that they really wanted someone to take over the vacant Guild Hall location,” added Myers.
In the kitchen, the menu includes about two dozen items that range from small bites to entrees, sandwiches and even desserts.
When asked about his favorite or notable dishes, Sultan replied, “Our lamb merguez flatbread is pretty unique. The dish consists of flatbread topped with North African-inspired lamb sausage and a white garlic goat cheese spread finished with asparagus. Everything is made in-house from the flatbread itself to the goat cheese spread, and even the sausage is made right here in the kitchen.”
Stop by the Borough Brewhouse for dinner to try 33rd Street Hospitality Kitchen’s other inspired menu items, many which are made with herbs and vegetables grown in their garden in East Falls. Standouts include fried chicken bao buns, spinach and fontina empanadas and a roasted red and golden beet salad with walnut crusted fried goat cheese.
Find Borough Brewhouse at 208 York Rd. in Jenkintown; phone: (267) 636-5858.
- Photos: Borough Brewhouse
