A new Phillips Seafood concept is coming to Washington, D.C., just months after Mexican restaurant Tortilla Coast closed its doors.
Details on the new restaurant are scarce; we’ve reached out to a representative for Phillips and will update this post when we hear back. But the Baltimore-based seafood chain opened 10 Tavern in Chinatown earlier this year, taking part of the former Redline sports bar space. 10 Tavern is also a sports bar, offering craft beer, cocktails and its own spin on pub food.
Phillips was also expected to use the lower level portion of the space to open Street Kart, a Chipotle-style Asian restaurant, though that doesn’t appear to have opened.
Although most of Phillips’ restaurant locations are seafood-centric, playing up Maryland crab, it does have other non-Phillips-branded concepts. The company runs Souzai Sushi & Sake in Atlantic City, New Jersey, as well as two hotels, one in Ocean City, Maryland, and another in Florida.
Phillips’ D.C. flagship used to be right on the waterfront in Southwest D.C., but it closed in 2014 to make way for The Wharf. Opening in the Logan Circle neighborhood, especially off of 14th Street, is a rare move to a nontouristy zone for the company, which tends to locate in areas with a lot of tourist traffic.
Tortilla Coast has been located on Capitol Hill for nearly three decades. In 2012, the owners opened the second location in Logan Circle. That location closed in June.
John Asadoorian represented the landlord, SJG Associates, and Steve Combs of KLNB Retail represented Phillips in the Logan Circle deal.
Phillips' flagship restaurant is located on the Inner Harbor in the Power Plant.