Pennsylvania’s restaurant scene was already absorbing another painful round of local closures when two more distinctive gathering places reached the end this month—joining a South Philadelphia landmark that closed late last year.
The losses include a 15-year Philadelphia cantina, the restaurant inside Lancaster’s most unusual independent cinema and a pizzeria that survived for nearly a century.
La Calaca Feliz in Philadelphia
La Calaca Feliz served its last meals Saturday, August 1, after 15 years in Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighborhood.
Brian Sirhal and Tim Spinner, both veterans of chef José Garces’ restaurant organization, opened the contemporary Mexican restaurant at 2321 Fairmount Ave., near the Philadelphia Museum of Art…