Teja Chekuri loved Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant enough to name his own brewery after it, and now he owns the original.
The Downingtown resident and international restaurateur is behind an $8 million effort to revive the regional brewpub chain, which abruptly shut down all its locations in September 2025 after nearly three decades in business, writes Emma Dooling for the Philadelphia Business Journal.
His Own Iron Hill
As a regular at Iron Hill’s West Chester restaurant, Chekuri drew inspiration from the brand when he opened a brewery and restaurant called Ironhill in India in 2017.
That venture has since become a chain of its own. Yet back in the States, the company that inspired it was heading in the opposite direction…