That's fascinating. From my memory, Steak and Ale appeared to be in Bensalem. Is it's parking lot connected to the Interplex? That's what I recall but I could most likely be wrong.

It is also interesting that Steak and Ale had a Bucks zip code rather than Philadelphia.

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I think that Steak and Ale you are referring to was just on the border, and so close that you really couldn't tell without a tape measure, what side it was on. Easy enough mistake to make without looking at the actual address and trying to do it from memory.

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that steak and ale was in trevose. it was on the boulevard, yes, but after the city limits. i worked not far from there for years.

Oi vey-I didn't photoshop the lcb application for phillyblog's entertainment.

transfer from:
Steak and Ale
11000 Roosevelt Blvd.
PHILADELPHIA, PA

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MYSTERY SOLVED!!!

I google mapped the address.

The license is not from the Steak and Ale near the Interplex. It is from the Bennigans (or another store from that shopping center) next to Chickie and Pete's in the Target Shopping Center.

The company that owned Steak and Ale may also have had that Bennigans franchise.

So Steak and Ale is in Bucks as we suspected.

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Checking out the orange liquor license application on the building on the Dalmatian building across from Beau Monde, we’ve found yet another French restaurant is coming, La Minette. With Coquette, Cochon, Zinc, Stephen Starr’s Parc and now this place, we’re looking at the greatest French expansion since Napoleonic times.

http://foobooz.com/category/opening-soon/

A more descriptive article on the planned restaurant

Philly's real French Quarter?

Francophiles like to brag that the area around the Sofitel at 17th and Sansom is a little French district, what with the Sofitel's French ownership and La Creperie, La Cigale and La Colombe around the corner. To which, we say "la la la." The city's true center of French dining is becoming Sixth and Bainbridge, home of Beau Monde. It's a block from Coquette, and not too far from Cochon. The reason for all this prattle is a Gallic project we just heard about: Bistro La Minette, on Sixth Street, near Bainbridge. It's the building with the gigantic Dalmatian mural. Chef-owner Peter Woolsey, who did time at Washington Square, Striped Bass and Le Mas Perrier (after a few years in Paris at Lucas Carton) hopes to open his "city French bistro" in March; he's applying for a liquor license. Alas, the Dalmatian has to go, to Woolsey's dismay. "I know it's a Philly icon," he told me. "But it's peeling and graffiti-ed up at the bottom and it doesn't go with our decor."

Great little article. I completely agree with Chef Woolsey-the dalmation suited as a great disguise to a vacant property; now that its turning into something, the dog must go. He should have no responsibility to keep something that was merely produced to hide blight.

Wishes to be open by March? Obviously he's not used to the grandstanded protests that occur by fumo and the neighbors when bringing a new liquor license to the area. How many months did it take coquette and gayle?

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Just reading this thread for the first time. I am the project manger for this project and it's my father's company who owns the building. We are selling the first floor and basement to Bistro La Minette and building four condos above. I'm pretty sure you guys got the liquer liscense history correct although I didn't have much to do with that aspect of it.

Before Bistro La Minette signed on to the project we were going to keep the dalmation and were looking into those decals that can be applied to the windows (SEPTA busses) to keep the whole mural, but it just didn't work for the theme of an authentic french bistro. I am trying my best to restore the brick instead of just painting over the facade again. I think in the end it will be an improvement to the neighborhood and I hope a building people can be proud of.

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or would like to look around. There is also going to be an aticle on the restaurant in Philadelphia Magazine sometime.

The restaurant is looking to open at the end of July.

-Garrett Ewood
Elwood Development
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You're doing a good job. I wouldn't worry about the dalmation too much-it was a quickly done mural to hide a blighted property; its obviously not blighted now, and you seem to be doing a great job at renovating it.