Does anyone know when Hamlet the BYOB on Emlen Street closed? I have a gift certificate for the place and I was really excited to try it. Does anyone know the names of the former owners or how to contact them?

They closed their bistro forever about a few weeks to a month ago. I saw them moving furniture out about that long ago too. Don't have contact details, but I guess you'll be out of luck with your gift cert.

"Hamlet's Closing My wife and I were the owners of Hamlet and the Bistro's closing is bittersweet. The bitter part is that we loved the restaurant, the neighborhood, the patrons, the vibe, the food, the entire experience.

When we moved to Mt. Airy 4 years ago, we wanted to create a restaurant that we would want to go to: a place with a welcoming atmosphere where locals wanted to bring out-of-town guests, celebrate big life events, or just eat meat loaf on Wednesday night. A place of quality food, but no pretense. I hope we succeeded in that.

The sweet is that my brother and now sister-in-law were the Hamlet chefs and they've moved away to Maryland to begin a their lives as newlyweds.

As the Bistro was a family affair, we all decided tol leave the business together. We miss it very much, however.

I can't comment on who may go into the space, but we are in talks with a couple of parties -- either of whom would be terrific successors to the Bistro.

Thanks for all who posted with good words and thoughts about Hamlet. To borrow the obvious line from another Bard play, parting is such sweet sorrow."

also, here's a link abt. the closing:
http://blogs.menupages.com/philadelp..._to_close.html

There was a thread in these boards about the closing a few weeks ago.